The History of Emily Montague (New Canadian Library) - Softcover

Brooke, Frances

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0771093519 ISBN 13: 9780771093517

Publisher: New Canadian Library, 2008

Synopsis

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.From the Paperback edition.

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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: New Canadian Library
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0771093519
• ISBN 13: 9780771093517
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 456