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# 123 - 888 Catherine Parr Traill Sproule, Peterborough, Canada Original Carte de Visite Albumen image mounted on printed studio card: 4 1/8" x 2 1/2" Image: 3 5/8" x 2 1/4" On reverse, inscribed: With Grandmama Love to Richard and Hannah Traill Dec. 1st 1882 Price: SOLD Please Inquire Catharine Parr Traill, born Strickland (9 January 1802 – 29 August 1899) British born authoress who wrote about life as a settler in Canada. Her early work, such as Disobedience, or Mind What Mama Says (1819), and "Happy Because Good", were written for children, and center around the benefits of obedience to one's parents. A prolific author, she averaged one book per year until her marriage in 1832 to Thomas Traill, a retired officer of the Napoleonic Wars. Soon after marriage they left for Canada, settling near Peterborough, Upper Canada [Ontario], where her brother Samuel was a surveyor. She described her new life in letters and journals, and collected these into The Backwoods of Canada (1836), which continues to be read as an important source of information about early Canada. After suffering through the depression of 1836, her husband Thomas joined the militia in 1837 to fight against the Upper Canada Rebellion. In 1840, dissatisfied with life in "the backwoods", the Traills and the Moodies both moved to the city of Belleville. Catharine spent her years in Belleville writing about the natural environment. She often sketched the plant life of Upper Canada, publishing Canadian Wild Flowers (1865) and Studies of Plant Life in Canada (1885). [modified from Wikipedia] |
