Frances Brooke (1724-1789), journalist, translator, playwright, novelist, and even co-manager of a theater, was described as "perhaps the first female novel-writer who attained a perfect purity and polish of style." Today, Brooke is known primarily for The History of Emily Montague, one of the earliest novels about Canada, where she lived for a number of years. But it is her third novel, The Excursion, that is an important example of the fashionable and popular English novels of the late 1770s.
Written for the very audience it portrays, this novel introduces the...
Frances Brooke (1724-1789), journalist, translator, playwright, novelist, and even co-manager of a theater, was described as "perhaps the first fem...
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 Quebecois, and the Native people are all a part of her story. The time is the decade between Wolfe's...
Frances Brooke was an 18th century British novelist, playwright, essayist and translator. Under the pseudonym of "Mary Singleton, Spinster," she edite...
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 Quebecois, and the Native people are all a part of her story. The time is the decade between Wolfe's...
Frances Brooke was an 18th century British novelist, playwright, essayist and translator. Under the pseudonym of "Mary Singleton, Spinster," she edite...
