First published in 1915, The Prairie Wife is Arthur Stringer's beloved portrait of a marriage tested by the frontier. Told through the frank, funny, and moving letters of Katharine—a city-bred bride who follows her husband to a lonely homestead on the Canadian prairie—the novel traces her journey from homesick disillusionment to hard-won love. Between blizzards and isolation, stubborn silences and small triumphs, Katharine writes to her friend Derry of the man she thought she married and the life she never expected, capturing with rare honesty what it meant for a woman to build a home where there was nothing but grass and sky. This edition presents the complete, unabridged original text, newly set and introduced, with reader's notes illuminating the book's historical context, its pioneering epistolary form, and its place in the literature of the Canadian West. Warm, witty, and quietly profound, it remains one of the most engaging novels of homesteading life ever written. Part of The Founding Texts Library.