Love strong as death
Subtitle: Lucy Peel's Canadian journal, 1833-1836
By: J.I. Little, editor.
Contributors: Little, J. I. 1947-
Series: Studies in childhood and family in Canada
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Waterloo, Ont
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
Subjects: Peel, Lucy, -- fl. 1833-1836 -- Diaries; Frontier and pioneer life -- Québec (Province) -- Sherbrooke Region; Pioneers -- Québec (Province) -- Sherbrooke Region -- Diaries; Sherbrooke Region (Quebec) -- Biography
Genres: Diaries.; Biography.
Description: "A transcription of Lucy Peel's journal was recently discovered in her descendent's house in Norwich, England. Sent in regular installments to her transatlantic relatives, the journal presents an intimate narrative of Lucy's Canadian sojourn with her husband, Edmund Peel, an officer on leave from the British navy.

Her daily entries begin with their departure as a young, newlywed couple from the shores of England in 1833 and end with their decision to return to the comforts of home after three and a half years of hard work as pioneer settlers.".

"Lucy Peel's diary focuses on the semi-public world of family and community in Lower Canada's Eastern Townships, and fulfils the same role as Susanna Moodie's writings had for the Upper Canadian frontier.

Though their perspective was from a small, privileged sector of society, these genteel women writers were sharp observers of their social and natural surroundings, and they provide valuable insights into the ideology and behaviour of the social class that dominated the Canadian colonies during the pre-Rebellion era."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.