num_pages: 750
description: Probably Canada's best known settlement story, this autobiographical account of frontier conditions in the 1830s is a compelling narrative that emphasizes both the tragedies and the triumphs of a sensible and sensitive woman and her family as they come to terms with their new environment.
language: English
title: Roughing it in the Bush or Life in Canada (Centre for Editing Early Canadian Texts)
titlecomplete: Roughing it in the Bush or Life in Canada (Centre for Editing Early Canadian Texts) (Volume 5)
characters: Susanna Moodie
genres: Historical, Biography, Canadian Literature, Canada, Memoir, Nonfiction, School, Classics, 19th Century, History
ratings_count: 1433
places: Upper Canada
series: Memoirs
publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press