Catharine Parr Traill

Catharine Parr Traill (nee Catharine Parr Strickland, born January 9, 1802 in London, † August 29 1899 in Lakefield, Ontario, Canada) was a British- Canadian author and botanist.

After her marriage in 1832 with Thomas Traill They emigrated to Canada. Her husband, who returned as an officer of the Napoleonic Wars, was entitled to a Canadian land for settlement. They settled near Peterborough (Ontario) (Upper Canada).

In Canada, sat Traill, who had already written in their youth, children's books, her writing work on. Noteworthy are her descriptions of the lives of Canadian settlers The Backwoods of Canada (1836 ) and Canadian Crusoes (1851 ), of which ( at least) the former is appearing in German Letters from the forests of Canada (1846 already in its second edition ). With Canadian Wild Flowers (1865) and Studies of Plant Life in Canada (1885 ), she wrote early descriptions of the Canadian flora. Your botanical author abbreviation is " C.Traill ".

After Catharine Parr Traill Catharine Parr Traill was named the College Trent University in Peterborough.

Works

• The Tell Tale - 1818
• Disobedience - 1819
• Reformation - 1819
• Nursery Fables - 1821
• Little Downy - 1822
• The Flower Basket - 1825
• Prejudice reproved - 1826
• The Young Emigrants - 1826
• The Juvenile Forget- Me-Not - 1827
• The Keepsake Guineas - 1828
• Amendment - 1828
• Sketches from Nature - 1830
• Sketchbook of a Young Naturalist - 1831
• Narratives of Nature - 1831
• The Backwoods of Canada - 1836
• Canadian Crusoes - 1852
• The Female Emigrant 's Guide - 1854
• Lady Mary and Her Nurse - 1856
• Canadian Wild Flowers - 1868
• Studies of Plant Life in Canada - 1885
• Pearls and Pebbles - 1894
• Cot and Cradle Stories - 1895

German editions:

• Letters from the forests of Canada. Polzer -Verlag, 256 pages, 2000 ( following the second German edition of 1846), ISBN 3934535038