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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 Qubcois, 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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A Superfluous Woman
Emma Frances Brooke
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A Superfluous Woman
Emma Frances Brooke
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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
heroine, Maria Villiers, to London's "gentle" society and its
glittering pastimes. Brooke drew upon the English courtship novel
in the tradition of Eliza Haywood, Henry Fielding, and Frances
Burney for her novel's overarching plot structure. But instead of
concentrating on Maria's romantic adventures, she experiments with
unusual treatments of subplots and unconventional characters. The
most interesting aspect of her story is the development of Maria's
ambition to win fame and fortune as a writer; it is one of the few
portraits of a woman with literary ambitions by an early woman
writer. Brooke's wry narrative voice foreshadows that of Jane
Austen. The editors' introduction places The Excursion firmly in
the tradition of the English novel, provides a fresh biography of
Brooke, and brings together the most important eighteenth- and
twentieth-century criticism of Brooke's work. The second volume in
the series Eighteenth-Century Novels by Women, The Excursion
contributes to our understanding of the development of the novel
and offers a lively view of women's position in eighteenth-century
English society.
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