Marian and the Major

Engel's "Elizabeth and the Golden City"

Marian Engel, Christl Verduyn

• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Year: 2010
• ISBN:
  9780773581739
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: North American Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

Rains, a former soldier in the Napoleonic Wars, immigrated to Canada at the same period as Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. He brought with him his wards, sisters Frances and Elizabeth. The three settled on St Joseph Island in northern Ontario, where their unusual domestic arrangement caught the attention and imagination of, among others, the nineteenth-century British travel-writer Anna Jameson, the Swiss born naturalist and explorer Louis Agassiz, the American poet William Cullen Bryant, and the Canadian novelist Marian Engel.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Preface: Marian and the Major or The Major and Marian?
• Introduction
• PART I The Major and Marian
• PART II Marian Engel Elizabeth and the Golden City
• Montreal
• Toronto
• PART III Trompe l’Oeil
• Archival Sources of Engel Material
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index