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A Gentlewoman in Upper Canada
Anne Langton (1804-1893) arrived in Upper Canada in 1837 to join her brother John on his settler farm near Fenelon Falls, Ontario. An accomplished miniaturist, landscape artist, and writer, Langton documented ten years of family and community hardship and growth in her journals, letters, and art, and traced her own physical and psychological transformation from cultivated Englishwoman to hard-working pioneer settler. She became an exceptionally influential member of the community, developing the first school and library in the area, ministering to the sick, undertaking charitable work, and hosting community events, all the while continuing to record her reactions to her new world in her writ...
A Gentlewoman in Upper Canada
The Langton family emigrated from England to the Peterborough, Ontario area in the 1830's.
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Langton Records, Journals and Letters from Canada, 1837-1846..
Anne Langton came to Canada with her family in 1837 when she was 33 years old. Her journal and letters, sent to her brother William in England, recounts her family's trials in detail.
A Gentlewoman in Upper Canada
. First published in 1950, A Gentlewoman in Upper Canada is a classic work of early pioneering literature. This new, significantly expanded edition includes many of Langton's original illustrations and reveals Langton's views on writing, art, and women's social and familial roles in nineteenth-century Europe and Canada.
