The history of Emily Montague /

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Document Record

Creator
Brooke, Frances, 1724?-1789, author
Title
The history of Emily Montague
Published
London : Printed for Dodsley, in Pall-Mall, 1784.
Identifier
oocihm.90813
90813
Subject
Québec (Province) -- Fiction
Québec (Province) -- Romans
Document source
Electronic resource:
Notes
"Vol. III."
Dedication in Vol. I signed and dated (page vii): London, March 22, 1769. Frances Brooke.
"That year she sailed for Québec, where her husband, the Reverend John Brooke, was military chaplain. Here she wrote what may be described as the first Canadian novel, The History of Emily Montague (1769), which she enriched with descriptions of landscape and climate, current events and inhabitants of the new colony."--Website, The Canadian Encyclopedia, Brooke, Frances page, viewed September 20, 2024.
Scanned from a microfiche of the original publication held by Acadia University, Vaughan Memorial Library, Wolfville, N.S.
1 online resource (2 unnumbered pages, 222 pages)
Volume 3 of a 4 volume set. For individual volumes in the set see CIHM nos. 90811-90814.
Collection
Monographs
Language
English
URL
https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.90813