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Cinderella Writes Back: S. J. Duncan’s Mary Trent as Canada personified

Sara Jeannete Duncan concerned herself overtly with the debates about the status of Canada within the Empire by critiquing Canada’s place within the empire. Her Mary Trent of Cousin Cinderella arrives to London at the height of the preferential trade debate thus enabling Duncan to illuminate the issue of Anglo-colonial relations. Formulating Mary as ignorant of her wealth and potential (and thus personifying Canada), and positioning her against Evelyn, an American social climber, gives Duncan the opportunity to depict what it means to be Canadian. While Mary comes to London interpreting England as home, we watch her pride in her Canadian origins increase. Additionally, through Mary’s unique female Canadian vantage point, as we watch her develop from a raw product commodified by the London market into a writer through the creation of her autobiographical narrative, one with increased confidence in herself as a Canadian and a woman, we learn how economic and political workings of imperialism affected women. At the nexus of imperialism, nationalism and feminism emerges a narrative of Canadian modernity.

S.J. Duncan, Cousin Cinderella, Canadian nationalism

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