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Articles

Volume 01, Number 2 (1976)

Cousin Cinderella and the Empire Game

  • Clara Thomas
Submitted
May 22, 2008
Published
1976-06-06

Abstract

Sara Jeannette Duncan's Cousin Cinderella, published in 1908, is based on the theme of Canada and Empire as played out in the lives of individuals. Duncan deals with the ambivalent attitudes of Canadians towards Britain and the British, and the thin line that Canadians walk between colonialism and budding autonomy. James Morris's Pax Britannia and George Woodcock's Who Killed the British Empire? are useful complements to Duncan's novels, providing historical sources for Duncan's studies of society and social politics that she began in The Imperialist, studies that expose the games of Empire through comedy and farce.