Roughing it in the Bush, by Susanna Moodie
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Roughing it in the Bush, by Susanna Moodie
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First published in 1852, this is an account of Moodie's life on a farm after emigrating to Ontario, Canada in the early 1830s.
Roughing it in the Bush, by Susanna Moodie- Published on: 2015-05-07
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.02" h x .85" w x 5.98" l, 1.22 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 380 pages
About the Author Susanna Moodie (1803-1885) is the Canadian pioneer and critically acclaimed author of Roughing it in the Bush and Life in the Bush Versus the Clearings, frank portrayals of life as a settler in 19th century Canada. She was the younger sister of writers Agnes Strickland and Catharine Parr Traill, who also wrote about her experience as a Canadian settler in The Backwoods of Canada. Before immigrating to Canada Susanna Moodie was a successful author of such children s books as The Little Quaker and The Sailor Brother, and was an active abolitionist. Moodie s works continue to influence contemporary writers like Margaret Atwood, and her contribution to Canadian literature was commemorated on a Canadian postage stamp in 2003.
Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. The early part of the winter of 1837, a year never to be forgotten in the annals of Canadian history, was very severe…. The morning of the seventh was so intensely cold that everything liquid froze in the house. The wood that had been drawn for the fire was green, and it ignited too slowly to satisfy the shivering impatience of women and children; I vented mine in audibly grumbling over the wretched fire, at which I in vain endeavoured to thaw frozen bread, and to dress crying children….After dressing, I found the air so keen that I could not venture out without some risk to my nose, and my husband kindly volunteered to go in my stead.I had hired a young Irish girl the day before. Her friends were only just located in our vicinity, and she had never seen a stove until she came to our house. After Moodie left, I suffered the fire to die away in the Franklin stove in the parlour, and went into the kitchen to prepare bread for the oven.The girl, who was a good-natured creature, had heard me complain bitterly of the cold, and the impossibility of getting the green wood to burn, and she thought that she would see if she could not make a good fire for me and the children, against my work was done. Without saying one word about her intention, she slipped out through a door that opened from the parlour into the garden, ran round to the wood-yard, filled her lap with cedar chips, and, not knowing the nature of the stove, filled it entirely with the light wood.Before I had the least idea of my danger I was aroused from the completion of my task by the crackling and roaring of a large fire, and a suffocating smell of burning soot. I looked up at the kitchen cooking-stove. All was right there. I knew I had left no fire in the parlour stove; but not being able to account for the smoke and smell of burning, I opened the door, and to my dismay found the stove red-hot, from the front plate to the topmost pipe that let out the smoke through the roof.My first impulse was to plunge a blanket, snatched from the servant’s bed, which stood in the kitchen, into cold water. This I thrust into the stove, and upon it I threw water, until all was cool below. I then ran up to the loft, and by exhausting all the water in the house, even to that contained in the boilers upon the fire, contrived to cool down the pipes which passed through the loft. I then sent the girl out of doors to look at the roof, which, as a very deep fall of snow had taken place the day before, I hoped would be completely covered, and safe from all danger of fire.She quickly returned, stamping and tearing her hair, and making a variety of uncouth outcries, from which I gathered that the roof was in flames.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Superlative By Sam Hill This story is from the 1830's onwards and its setting is the (then) British colony of Canada.Adopting various formats including that of a novel, a romance, a diary and a history, embroidered with poems, the book relates Moodie's experiences as an immigrant settled with her husband to a primitive and penniless pioneering life near present-day Peterborough, Ontario, in forests that were, at the time, remote and near-impenetrable. Moodie opens with a grim warning that a settler's life is extremely harsh; and a condemnation of the glib promoters urging Englishmen to emigrate and thereby accede to wealth and a life of ease, which in fact becomes nothing but a tragic pipe dream for the vast majority.The author is manifestly an intelligent, compassionate, sensitive and observant person with a marked talent for writing and poetry. Her education had most certainly not been of a common sort. Her character inspired Margaret Atwood's fine book of poems in our era, "The Journals of Susanna Moodie".It is no surprise, then, that Moodie's book was a best-seller in its day and is, even now, of enduring interest, especially to a Canadian. I liked most particularly her sympathetic vignettes of Canada's native peoples that she had encountered. "Nature's gentlemen", she called them, in contrast to the noisy bedraggled multitudes flooding the shores from Europe. The mind-numbing hardships and poverty endured by Canada's early pioneers, so vividly described by the author, are a phase of history one tends to gloss over in modern times. It needed a particular mindset, motivation, and formidable physical attributes to become a thriving hewer of wood, drawer of water and ultimately a farmer in the primeval wilderness. A great many of the immigrants just did not have that moxie, nor the benign helping hand of fortune (although there were others too, of course, who did have it in spades).Her remark in the early part of the book, which I copied (from an audio version) and reproduce here, made me understand so much better my own parents' feelings as immigrants to this same land, whom I had, as a callow youth, classified cavalierly as perpetual exiles: "My heart yearned intensely for my absent home. Home! The word had ceased to belong to my present. It was doomed to live forever in the past. For what immigrant ever regarded the country of his exile as his home? To the land that he has left that name belongs forever, and in no instance does he bestow it upon another. 'I have got a letter from home ...'; 'I have seen a friend from home...'; 'I dreamt last night that I was at home...'; are expressions of everyday occurrence to prove that the heart acknowledges no other home than the land of its birth". How aptly, how touchingly put!Moodie provides insights helpful to the understanding of other authors' works from that same era; for instance, those of Rudyard Kipling. We infer that British officers who retired early due to battlefield injuries received only half-pension, which made it virtually impossible for them to live decently back in England and often served as a powerful spur towards emigration. Having been schooled by the Empire to command and to be obeyed, they had little aptitude for _living _with_ those they had been raised to rule. Dr. Watson shared his Baker Street digs with the legendary Sherlock Holmes in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous series for precisely that reason. On his invalid's pension, Capt (Ret.) Watson would have had a very tough time indeed of survival in London on his own, if he wished to continue rubbing elbows with those of his own class. Watson was a fictional personage, to be sure; but his case was typical.Such folks were easy marks for promoters urging them to "Go West". That is why the Moodie family emigrated to the colony of Canada, which destination, at that time, was the infatuation of the day. Military retirees on tight budgets such as he were in demand and they went in droves, even though unfit for the rough labouring life of a pioneer, credulously buying into yarns about castles in the sky. This led, far more often than not, to their ultimate sorrow.Regrettably, the Table of Contents, while well and truly provided, is not linked to the corresponding pages. This obviates the possibility of being able to browse through the book. Accordingly, I am obliged to give my review of this e-book edition only 4 stars, instead of the 5 (and plus!) that it merits. Nevertheless I still highly recommend this work.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. This is a treasure By Fran Stewart This gem of a volume starts with cholera, and ends with a plea for families in the 1800s not to emigrate to the New World. Camping it most certainly isn't. We're talking life and death situations.I would have made a lousy pioneer; ROUGHING IT IN THE BUSH simply fortifies that knowledge. Susanna Moodie did not choose to move from England to Canada. Like so many women of her times, the choice was made by her husband, and she had no recourse but to follow him. Her staunch attitude that refused to be overcome by despair despite the very real hardships she had to endure, makes her, in my mind, a model of the kind of strength women have and often do not recognize until we are called upon to test it.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Great read. By N. McIntosh Susanna Moodie captures what life was like for pioneers in Canada. She writes in a natural, unaffected way, and documents her journey from England to Canada, where she and her husband started a farm and raised a family. She brings to life the hardships, the worries, and the day to day routines of these settlers, in now familiar places.
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