this new life were not going to be as wonderful as she had been led to believe. In the introduction to Roughing it in the Bush, she says:
             "The general interest, once excited, was industriously kept alive by pamphlets...which prominently set forth all the good to be derived from a settlement in the backwoods of Canada: while they carefully concealed the toil and hardship to be endured in order to secure these advantages." (95)
             Needless to say, Moodie was not impressed with many of the aspects of her new life. In her Pioneer Memoir, Roughing it in the Bush, she often mentions the bitter cold of the Canadian winter. In the autumn of her first year in Canada, she writes "The fall rains had commenced. In a few days the cold wintry showers swept all the gor
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