TY - BOOK AU - Moodie,Susanna TI - Roughing It in the Bush AV - F1001 PY - 2003/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Moodie, Susannah, 1803-1885 KW - Ontario -- Description and travel KW - Frontier and pioneer life -- Ontario KW - Pioneers -- Ontario -- Biography KW - Women pioneers -- Ontario -- Biography N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roughing_it_in_the_Bush; Release date is 2003-08-01; Text file produced by Andrew Sly HTML file produced by David Widger; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Roughing It in the Bush" by Susanna Moodie is a settler's account published in 1852. Written for British subjects considering immigration, this memoir chronicles Moodie's experiences homesteading in Upper Canada during the 1830s. Through vivid sketches, she exposes the harsh realities of pioneer life—backbreaking labor, crude living conditions, and social tensions—that contrasted sharply with the utopian promises used to lure middle-class emigrants. Her frank, often darkly humorous narrative reveals the profound gap between immigrant dreams and Canadian frontier truths. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4389 ER -