Books with author Emma Frances Brooke

Title: The Confession of Stephen Whapshare.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The GENERAL HISTORICAL collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This varied collection includes material that gives readers a 19th century view of the world. Topics include health, education, economics, agriculture, environment, technology, culture, politics, labour and industry, mining, penal policy, and social order. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:++++<Source Library> British Library<Contributors> Brooke, Emma Frances; <Original Pub Date> 1898.<Physical Description> 297 p. ; 8º.<Shelfmark> 012623.f.10.

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Excerpt from The History of Emily Montague, Vol. 2Emily is a fine girl, Lucy, and I am friends with her again, fo, my dear; I {hall revive my coterie, and be happy two or three months longer. I have fent to aik my two fweet fellows at qjebec to dine here L really long to fee them; I {hall let them into the prefent {late of'afi'airs here, for they both defpife Sir George as much as I do; the creature looks amazingly foolifh, and I enjoy his humiliation not a little fuch an animal to fet up for being beloved ihdeedl'o' to be fure!About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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.

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 Québécois, 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.

After spending two or three very agreeable days here with a party of friends in exploring the beauties of the Island and dropping a tender tear at Carisbrook Castle on the memory of the unfortunate Charles the First I am just setting out for America on a scheme I once hinted to you of settling the lands to which I have a right as a lieutenant-colonel on half pay.' (Excerpt from Letter1)

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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 Québécois, 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.

Excerpt from The History of Lady Julia Mandeville, Vol. 1 of 2Shall I then murmur becaufe I was not born to affluence? No, believe me,'l would not be the fon of any other than this mofi ex callent of men, to inherit all the flores which avarice and ambition figh for I am prouder of a father to whofe difcerning wifdom, and generous expanded heart, I am (0 obliged, than I fhould he of one whom [was to fuc~ ceed in all the titles and pofieflions in the pow s er of fortune to bellow. From him I receive, and learn properly to value, the moft real of all treafures, independence and content.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.