Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_Emily_Montague

Release date is 2005-07-15

Produced by Andrew Sly

"The History of Emily Montague" by Frances Brooke is a novel published in 1769. Often considered the first Canadian novel, this epistolary work follows a love story set in Quebec shortly after the Battle of the Plains of Abraham. Through letters exchanged between Emily Montague, Colonel Rivers, and other characters, the novel weaves romance with observations about English, French, Huron, and Iroquois cultures in colonial Canada. Brooke includes travelogue elements, offering detailed descriptions of the colony while exploring social norms and cultural relations in this sentimental tale. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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