Susanna and her Critics: A Strategy of Fiction for Roughing it in the Bush

Susanna Moodie's Roughing it in the Bush employs certain fictional strategies. Susanna the author both implicitly and explicitly criticises Susanna the character for her deficiencies; this is usually done through the observations of other characters. The implication is that Moodie shaped her materials rather deliberately to a pre-conceived form rather than to a didactic account of pioneer life. The book, although episodic, has a larger unity that relies on fictional elements to reach fruition