Marian and the Major

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Marian and the Major is written by Marian Engel and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0773581731 (ISBN 10) and 9780773581739 (ISBN 13).

Rains, a former soldier in the Napoleonic Wars, immigrated to Canada at the same period as Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. He brought with him his wards, sisters Frances and Elizabeth. The three settled on St Joseph Island in northern Ontario, where their unusual domestic arrangement caught the attention and imagination of, among others, the nineteenth-century British travel-writer Anna Jameson, the Swiss born naturalist and explorer Louis Agassiz, the American poet William Cullen Bryant, and the Canadian novelist Marian Engel.