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Susanna Moodie

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Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of today, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.


— Susanna Moodie


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I have no wish for a second husband. I had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie down mistress, and get up master.


— Susanna Moodie


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Nature, reason, and Christianity recognize no other. Pride may say Nay; but Pride was always a liar, and a great hater of the truth.


— Susanna Moodie


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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.


— Susanna Moodie


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Large parties given to very young children... foster the passions of vanity and envy, and produce a love of dress and display which is very repulsive in the character of a child.


— Susanna Moodie


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The want of education and moral training is the only real barrier that exists between the different classes of men.


— Susanna Moodie


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Did you know about Susanna Moodie?

The family settled on a farm in Douro township near Lakefield north of Peterborough Upper Canada where her brother Samuel worked as a surveyor and where artifacts are housed in a museum. Additionally the central character of Shield's novel Small Ceremonies is working on a biography of Moodie. The inspiration for the memoir came from a suggestion by her editor that Susanna Moodie write an "emigrant's guide" for British people looking to move to Canada.

Susanna Moodie born Strickland (6 December 1803 – 8 April 1885) was an English-born Canadian author who wrote about her experiences as a settler in Canada which was a British colony at the time.

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