SUSANNA MOODIE
\suːzˈanə mˈuːdi], \suːzˈanə mˈuːdi], \s_uː_z_ˈa_n_ə m_ˈuː_d_i]\
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A Canadian poet and prose-writer, sister of Agnes Strickland; born in Reydon Hall, Suffolk, England, Dec. 6, 1803; died in Toronto, Canada, April 8, 1885. She wrote: "Enthusiasm and Other Poems" (1829); "Roughing it in the Bush, or Life in Canada" (2 vols., 1852); "Matrimonial Speculations" (1854); and "The Monctons" (2 vols., 1856).
By Charles Dudley Warner
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Snake's-head
- Guinea-hen flower; -- so called in England because its spotted petals resemble the scales of a snake's head.