Wacousta; or, The Prophecy
novel by Richardson
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Canadian literature
- In Canadian literature: From settlement to 1900
In Wacousta; or, The Prophecy (1832), John Richardson portrayed the 1763 uprising led by Pontiac, chief of the Ottawa Indians, at Fort Detroit. However, James De Mille’s satiric travel fantasy A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder (1888) and Roberts’s renowned quasi-documentary animal stories (Earth’s…
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discussed in biography
- In John Richardson
…work is his third novel, Wacousta; or, The Prophecy, 2 vol. (1832), a Gothic story about Pontiac’s War (the Indian uprising of 1763–64). Its sequel, The Canadian Brothers; or, The Prophecy Fulfilled, 2 vol. (1840; U.S. edition, Matilda Montgomerie; or the Prophecy Fulfilled), was less successful. Among his works of…
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