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Summary Of Lastluck Lake By Susan Carelton

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Women’s Rights in Canada: Representation in Literature The fight for women’s rights in Canada was one of the largest human rights movements to take place during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and thus is often used as a theme in literature. S. Carelton, is an example of an author who subtly incorporated women’s rights into her work. My research examines how “Lastluck Lake” by S. Carelton was influenced by the women’s rights movement. How does the author show the struggle women went through as they fought for their rights? In what ways does the author integrate the successes of women at the time the novel was written? Does the author include any foresight into women’s rights victories that would happen after the story was published? …show more content…

Most religious works suggested the idea of male dominance and resulted in women being put at a disadvantage in many countries around the world. The fight for women’s rights in Canada began at the start of the twentieth century and proved to be a very long, trying challenge (Tunstall and Eaton). Susan Carelton identifies the struggle for women’s rights right from the beginning of her novel through her pen name, S. Carelton, as she chose not to acknowledge her given name. As women’s rights had not yet been developed at the time of publication (1907), it is likely that Susan Carelton chose to write under a name which was guaranteed to be accepted by both the editors and readers of her novel (Freeman). The struggle is also identified in several places throughout Carelton’s novel “Lastluck Lake”. In the beginning, Paul Hazard comes back to camp to find Sophy Ridgeway’s father as left her alone with the men and he appalled by the fact (Carelton 3). The idea that Sophy had been left without the care of a man shows that while Sophy was capable of being on her own, men, such as Paul, thought of women as inferior, requiring a male for basic her basic needs such as food, shelter, and protection. Throughout the novel, the men, specifically Rider, often makes comments in regards to his view of women. At one point in the novel, Sophy had a gun which Rider takes

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