Femininity, the Picturesque, and the Canadian Landscape: The Drawings and Watercolours of Elizabeth Simcoe and Elizabeth Hale

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Femininity, the Picturesque, and the Canadian Landscape: The Drawings and Watercolours of Elizabeth Simcoe and Elizabeth Hale
Abstract
Analyzes the sketches and paintings, diaries and personal letters of two British immigrant women during 1791 to 1826 for changes in the ways that they represent life in turn of the nineteenth century Lower and Upper Canada. Elizabeth Hale and her husband John owned the 130,000-acre seigneury of Sainte-Anne de la Pérade, near Trois-Rivières. Elizabeth Simcoe was the wife of John Graves Simcoe, the first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada. The author maintains these two women evidence fundamental and parallel changes in their concepts of femininity, altering them to include elements of practicality, independence and risk-taking. She argues that shifts in their conceptions of femininity are reflected in their landscapes.
Publication
Atlantis
Volume
Vol. 30
Issue
no. 2
Pages
8-21
Date
2006
Language
en
Citation
Korda, Andrea. “Femininity, the Picturesque, and the Canadian Landscape: The Drawings and Watercolours of Elizabeth Simcoe and Elizabeth Hale.” Atlantis Vol. 30, no. 2 (2006): 8–21.
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