Penulis: Frances Brooke

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 p …

The lives and loves of early Canadian settlers are captured through their letters. At a time of relative peace-after General Wolfe’s victory on the Plains of Abraham and before the American War of In …

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Frequently called the first Canadian novel, The History of Emily Montague, presents subversive views on traditional subjects like love and marriage and introduces such unique Canadian themes as the r …

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 p …

Widely considered the first Canadian novel, it has an epistolary form and is remarkable for its observations on the lives and traditions of Quebecers and First Nations, as well as on the manners of t …