Traill Catherine Parr 1802-1899 Born In England Daughter Of
Thomas Strickland of Reydon Hall, Suffolk, and sister of Agnes
Strickland and Susanna Moodie. Educated at home. Began to write at an
early age, her first volume of stories for children being published in
1818. In 1832 married Lieutenant Thomas Traill of the Royal Scotch
Fusileers, and some months later they removed to Canada. Most of her
books were written in Canada, and embody her experiences in the
backwoods, and her intimate studies of plant life. =Bib.=: Works: Plant
Life in Canada; Canadian Wild Flowers; Canadian Crusoes; Pearls
and Pebbles, with biog. sketch by Mary Agnes FitzGibbon. For biog.,
see Morgan, Cel. Can.; MacMurchy, Canadian Literature.