The embroidered tent: Five gentlewomen in early Canada, Elizabeth Simcoe, Catharine Parr Traill, Susanna Moodie, Anna Jameson, Lady Dufferin

In this widely acclaimed study, Marian Fowler explores how the experience of wilderness and frontier create a psychic tension between the gentility of old-world "embroidery" and the rugged masculinity of "tent"-dwelling in the pioneering women of nineteenth-century Canada.About the Author:Marian Fowler has won the Canadian Biography Award and has published widely on Canada and Canadian writing. She lives in Toronto.