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Historians of Canadian literature often call Frances Brooke’s The History of Emily Montague of 1769 the first Canadian novel. Although it was published in England and written by an Englishwoman, Frances Brooke spent the years 1763 to 1768 in Quebec, and drew extensively on her experience there for her novel, the first and best half of which is vividly set in Lower Canada.
First published in Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 11.3, Article 4 (1999). Reproduced with minor emendations by permission of Juliet McMaster and Digital Commons.
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McMaster, J. (2013). Young Jane Austen and the First Canadian Novel. In: Raw, L., Dryden, R.G. (eds) Global Jane Austen. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137270764_2
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