Catharine Parr Trail

Catharine Parr Trail (* 1802)

Catharine Parr Traill (born Catharine Parr Strickland ; born January 9, 1802 in London , † August 29, 1899 in Lakefield , Ontario , Canada) was a British-Canadian writer and botanist .

After marrying Thomas Traill in 1832, they emigrated to Canada. Her husband, who returned from the Napoleonic Wars as an officer , was entitled to Canadian settlement land. They settled near Peterborough, Ontario ( Upper Canada ).

In Canada, Traill, who had written children's books in her youth, continued her literary work. Her descriptions of the life of the Canadian settlers The Backwoods of Canada (1836) and Canadian Crusoes (1851) are noteworthy , of which (at least) the former appeared in German as Letters from the Forests of Canada (in 1846 already in the second edition).

With Canadian Wild Flowers (1865) and Studies of Plant Life in Canada (1885) she wrote early descriptions of the Canadian flora. Your botanical author abbreviation is " C.Traill ".

The Catharine Parr Traill College at Trent University in Peterborough is named after Catharine Parr Traill .

Works

• The Tell Tale - 1818
• Disobedience - 1819
• Reformation - 1819
• Nursery Fables - 1821
• Little Downy - 1822
• The Flower Basket - 1825
• Prejudice Reproved - 1826
• The Young Emigrants - 1826
• The Juvenile Forget-Me-Not - 1827
• The Keepsake Guineas - 1828
• Amendment - 1828
• Sketches from Nature - 1830
• Sketch Book of a Young Naturalist - 1831
• Narratives of Nature - 1831
• The Backwoods of Canada - 1836
• Canadian Crusoes - 1852
• The Female Emigrant's Guide - 1854
• Lady Mary and Her Nurse - 1856
• Canadian Wild Flowers - 1868
• Studies of Plant Life in Canada - 1885
• Pearls and Pebbles - 1894
• Cot and Cradle Stories - 1895
• A view from the road. Collection of short stories. Goose Lane, Fredericton 1989
• Afar in the forest; Or, pictures of life and scenery in the wilds of Canada. Anthology. Chizine - Hansebooks, 2017

German editions

• Catherine Parr Strickland Traill: Settlements in the primeval forests of Canada. A guide for emigrants to America from an émigré. Übers. FM Wiese. Baumgärtner, Leipzig 1837 online
• Letters from the forests of Canada. (The backwoods of Canada) Polzer, Potsdam 2000 (based on the 2nd German edition 1846) ISBN 3-934535-03-8 (= letters from 1832 to 1835)
• Übers. Peter Meier: Letters from the forests of Canada. Reclam's Universal Library No. 1306, Leipzig 1989
  • Excerpt: Letter from the woods. (L'envoi) New transl. Ursula Flitner, in Women in Canada. Stories and poems. dtv, Munich 1993, pp. 7-21.

literature

• Catharine Parr Trail . In: Dictionary of Canadian Biography . 24 volumes, 1966–2018. University of Toronto Press, Toronto ( English , French ).
• Charlotte Gray : Sisters in the wilderness. The lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. Penguin Random Canada, 2008
• Carol Martin: Catharine Parr Traill, backwoods pioneer. Groundwood, Toronto 2004 (children's book)
• Elizabeth Hopkins: The enduring legacy of Catharine Parr Traill, in Françoise Le Jeune Ed .: Legacy and contribution to Canada of European female emigrants. Peter Lang, Bern 2003, pp. 115–123.

Web links

• Literature by and about Catharine Parr Traill in the catalog of the German National Library
• Parr Traill , entry at Athabasca University , project English-Canadian Writers, by Lee Skallerup, with further links.
• The Backwoods of Canada. Being letters from the wife of an emigrant officer, illustrative of the domestic economy of British America in Project Gutenberg
  • Canadian Crusoes. A tale of the Rice Lake plants,
  • In the forest. Or pictures of life and scenery in the woods of Canada,
  • Lady Mary and her nurse. Or, a peep into the canadian forest,
  • Little Downy. The history of a field-mouse,
  • Lost in the backwoods. A tale of the canadian forest,
  • The tell-tale. An original collection of moral and amusing stories,

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Catharine Parr Traill in the Encyclopædia Britannica
2. ↑ cf. online below
3. ↑ publisher information
4. ↑ since February 2018 no access from German servers.