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| | Emigration and Bush Life - Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | The introductions to their books, and Susanna's often-cited conclusion to Roughing It, echo the contents of John Moodie's long letter to James Traill, March 8, 1836 on the conditions and challenges of emigrants' lives, as well as possible solutions to these difficulties. |
 | | During this time, Susanna struggled on in the bush with the help of her neighbours (see Susanna and John's letters, from February 1838 to July 1839). |
 | | In 1839 John Moodie was appointed Sheriff of Hastings County, and the Moodie family was able to escape from what Susanna referred to as "the prisonhouse [sic]" of the bush by moving to the town of Belleville (see John's letter to Susanna, November 24, 1839, and Susanna's introduction to her book Life in the Clearings). |
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