THE ATHENAEUMThe History of Emily MontagueFrances Brooke
Novel
The History of Emily Montague
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textFrances Brooke went out to Quebec in 1763, where her husband was chaplain to the garrison, and wrote this novel in letters, published in London in 1769. Its letter-writers go sleighing, watch the great river freeze and argue about marriage, and Arabella Fermor, the liveliest of them, steals the book. It is often called the first novel written in North America.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 7 hr 35 min
- Where to find it
- The Canadian Room
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #16300. In the public domain in the United States.