"Winona; or, The Foster-Sisters is a lively and engaging novel that makes up for its reliance on conventions through its treatment of issues of gender, race, and modernity that are of continuing critical and theoretical interest. Not least because of its brightly illuminating introduction, annotations, and appendices, the Broadview edition of Winona by Len Early and Michael A. Peterman, two of the most highly esteemed scholars in the field, opens a large and revealing window onto Crawford's times and writerly concerns. Now that it is readily available in an authoritatively edited text, Winona is sure to spark reconsideration of the achievements and trajectory of a writer who made a greater contribution than has hitherto been generally recognized to the literary culture that emerged in Canada during the post-Confederation period." – D.M.R. Bentley, University of Western Ontario
