O Canada! Summer is heating up, but Amy and Katja have just the book for your chilly armchair (or beach chair!) vacation… Bessie Marchant’s 1911 adventure novel, A Countess from Canada: A Story of Life in the Backwoods. This action-packed tale of a school teacher and an Englishman in a backwoods Canadian village hits all the perfect summer-reading notes—suspense, laughter, a beautiful and unique setting, and loads of swoonworthy romance!
Topics and shout-outs in this episode include: the Gibson Girl, the Gilded Age, the Gibson Man, English aristocracy, teaching, poverty, family business, Hudson Bay, Canada, England, the Canadian wilderness, Richard Harding Davis, G.A. Henty, chores, canoeing, dogsleds, and indigenous peoples.