Record ID:
35741678 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • n 50001362
Heading:
Birth:
  • 1803-12-06
  • Bungay (England)
Death:
  • 1885-04-08
  • Toronto (Ont.)
Associated with:
  • Canada
Occupations:
  • Authors Novelists Abolitionists Poets Pioneers
Used for:
  • Moodie, Susannah Strickland, 1803-1885
  • Moodie,, Mrs. (Susanna), 1803-1885
  • Strickland, Susannah, 1803-1885
  • Strickland, S. (Susanna), 1803-1885
  • S. M., 1803-1885
  • Moodie, Mrs., 1803-1885
  • Strickland, Susanna, 1803-1885
Notes:
  • Her Life in the clearings, 1887.
  • Her Flora Lyndsay, 1887: t.p. (Mrs. Moodie)
  • nuc89-18920: Her Roughing it in the bush ... 1986 (hdg. on MnU rept.: Moodie, Susannah Strickland, 1803-1885; usage: Susanna Moodie)
  • NUC pre-56 (usage: Susanna Moodie; Mrs. Moodie; Susannah Strickland)
  • NLC, 9/20/89 (hdg: Moodie, Susanna, 1803-1885)
  • Negro slavery described by a Negro, 2001: title screen (S. Strickland)
  • Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill website, National Library of Canada, 14 Nov. 2003: Writing and publications, English writing, Susanna's creative focus screen (Before she left Britain, Susanna assisted two former West Indian slaves in telling their stories for the Anti-Slavery Society. The History of Mary Prince... and Negro Slavery Described By a Negro: Being the Narrative of Ashton Warner... were both published in 1831)
  • Bentley's miscellany, 1852: volume 32, number 187, pages 143-152 (Canadian life: Jeanie Burns, [by] S.M.)
  • Wellesley Index, via WWW, 25 January 2018 (Canadian life: Jeanie Burns written by Susannah (Strickland) Moodie, 1803-1885, novelist)
  • Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, via WWW, 25 January 2018 (Susanna Moodie, née Strickland, autobiographer and short-story writer, was born at Bungay, Suffolk, on 6 December 1803; publishing work in annuals and in periodicals such as The Athenaeum, she was willing to experiment in almost any literary genre; her output in the 1820s and early 1830s includes, in addition to her poems, sketches, and stories for magazines, several children's stories; a novel (Spartacus, 1822), which she claimed to have written when she was thirteen; and a volume of poetry inspired by her conversion to congregationalism (Enthusiasm, and other Poems, 1831); she also helped the former slave Mary Prince to write her autobiography (1831), which was to become an important document in the abolition debate; on 4 April 1831 Susanna Strickland married John Wedderburn Dunbar Moodie; emigrated to Cobourg, Ontario, eventually settling in Belleville; she became editor of the Victoria Magazine, a short-lived periodical (thirteen issues) for which she and her husband wrote most of the material; she was also contributing stories and journalistic work to magazines such as the Literary Garland; in 1852 she published the work that established her reputation, Roughing it in the Bush; Susanna Moodie died on 8 April 1885 at 52 Adelaide Street, Toronto, and was buried in Belleville, Ontario)
  • LAC internal file, June 26, 2019 (access point: Moodie, Susanna, 1803-1885; variants: Moodie, Mrs., 1803-1885; Moodie, Susannah Strickland, 1803-1885; Strickland, Susanna, 1803-1885; Strickland, Susannah, 1803-1883; Susanna Moodie, nee Strickland, author, settler; born at Bungay, England, 6 December 1803; died at Toronto 8 April 1885; Susanna was the youngest in a literary family of whom Catharine Parr Traill and Samuel Strickland are best known in Canada)
Local system number:
  • 000000746097
  • abv01182263
Cataloguing source:
  • DLC eng rda DLC DLC MnHi INS-SF OCoLC NcU UPB CaOONL VJTL
Authentication code:
  • nlc