The History of Emily Montague - Softcover

Brooke, Frances

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1438504314 ISBN 13: 9781438504315

Publisher: Book Jungle, 2008

Synopsis

Frances Brooke was an 18th century British novelist, playwright, essayist and translator. Under the pseudonym of "Mary Singleton, Spinster," she edited thirty-seven issues of her own weekly periodical, "Old Maid" (1755-1756). In 1769 she published "The History of Emily Montague." Although her time in Canada was brief her novel was considered to be the first novel written in Canada. The History of Emily Montague is a love story set in Quebec City. The early English-speaking inhabitants, the Québécois, and the Native people are all a part of her story. The time is the decade between Wolfe’s victory on the Plains of Abraham in 1759 and the American War of Independence in the 1770s. The History of Emily Montague is written as a series of letters. “ The History of Emily Montague has much to say about the confrontation between the old world and the “new”, Huron and Iroquois culture; progressive gender roles in the development of a new colony; the innate indolence of Canadians; the weather; and eighteenth-century courtship in a colonial context. In a sense this novel is a travelogue, a “history” of Emily Montague and her friends, in response to the unseen request by the English woman to describe the colony in detail―with all the information a woman in England would want to know about the landscape, religion, social life, and people of colonial Canada. Through the different letter writers, primarily Colonel William Fermor, Colonel Ed Rivers, and Arabella Fermor, Brooke spends a great deal of time detailing lives and customs of the various inhabitants of Canada.” From Citation: Moss, Laura. "The History of Emily Montague". The Literary Encyclopedia. 8 January 2001.

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This charming love story captures the lives of Quebec City?s early English-speaking inhabitants, the Québécois, and the Native people, in the decade between Wolfe?s victory on the Plains of Abraham in 1759 and the American War of Independence in the 1770s.

First published in 1769, The History of Emily Montague, which brings the 18th-century novel into a New World context, is rightly called Canada?s ? indeed North America?s ? first novel.

About the Author:

Frances Brooke was an eighteenth century English novelist, playwright and translator. Best known for her novels The History of Lady Julia Mandeville and The History of Emily Montague, Brooke also published a weekly periodical called Old Maid using the name Mary Singleton, Spinster. Frances Brooke died in 1789.

About this edition

• Publisher: Book Jungle
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1438504314
• ISBN 13: 9781438504315
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 456