[Gutenberg 58876] • Judith Moore · or, Fashioning a Pipe
- Authors
- Wood, Joanna E.
- Publisher
- Echo Library
- Tags
- farm life -- fiction , love stories , singers -- fiction , villages -- fiction , canada -- fiction
- ISBN
- 9781406895100
- Date
- 2019-06-20T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.19 MB
- Lang
- en
Joanna Ellen Wood (1867-1927) was the youngest of 11 children born to a farmer in Lesmahagow, Scotland. Following the death from tubercolosis of several of her siblings, in 1869 her parents moved with their remaining offspring first to Irving, NY where their eldest son William had settled, and later to Ontario, Canada where they purchased a large farm in Queenston, overlooking the Niagara River. From 1887-1901 Joanna was based in New York City, using her brother William's business address for her mail whilst she travelled widely, wintering in various American and European cities and spending summers at Queenston. It is unclear how she became an author although she attributed her success to William who encouraged her to find a publisher. In J Selwyn Tait she found a sympathetic fellow author whose blurb when launching An Untempered Wind (1894) in New York compared it to Jane Eyre and The Scarlet Letter, and it was widely praised in the press. At the pinnacle of her career in 1901, she was the highest paid Canadian writer of fiction and her work was a critical success on both sides of the Atlantic. This novel first published in 1898 was praised for its depiction of Ontario rural life.