Frances Brooke - Studies of Brooke's Works

Studies of Brooke's Works

Note: most entries below are from the Selected bibliography: Frances Moore Brooke by Jessica Smith and Paula Backscheider, which additionally offers references to editions of Frances Brooke's works as well as full-length critical monographs and biographical studies of the author.

• Raeleen Chai-Elsholz, "Textual Allusions and Narrative Voice in the Lettres de Milady Juliette Catesby and its English Translation ", in La traduction du discours amoureux (1660–1830), eds. Annie Cointre, Florence Lautel-Ribstein, Annie Rivara (Metz: CETT, 2006).
• Juliet McMaster, "Young Jane Austen and the First Canadian Novel: From Emily Montague to 'Amelia Webster' and Love and Freindship," Eighteenth-Century Fiction 11 (April 1999): 339-46.
• Robert James Merrett, "Signs of Nationalism in The History of Emily Montague, Canadians of Old and the Imperialist: Cultural Displacement and the Semiotics of Wine," Semiotic Inquiry 14 (1994): 235-50.
• Robin Howells, "Dialogism in Canada's First Novel: The History of Emily Montague," Canadian Review of Comparative Literature 20 (1993): 437-50.
• Dermot McCarthy, "Sisters Under the Mink: The Correspondent Fear in The History of Emily Montague," Essays on Canadian Writing 51-52 (Winter-Spring 1993): 340-57.
• Jane Sellwood, "'A Little Acid Is Absolutely Necessary': Narrative as Coquette in Frances Brooke's The History of Emily Montague," Canadian Literature 136 (1993): 60-79.
• Barbara M. Benedict, "The Margins of Sentiment: Nature, Letter, and Law in Frances Brooke's Epistolary Novels," ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature 23, no. 3 (July 1992): 7-25.
• Robert Merrett, "The Politics of Romance in The History of Emily Montague ," Canadian Literature 133 (Summer 1992): 92-108.
• Frances Teague, "Frances Brooke's Imagined Epistles," Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 304 (1992): 711-12.
• K.J.H. Berland, "A Tax on Old Maids and Bachelors: Frances Brooke's Old Maid," in Eighteenth-Century Women and Arts, ed. Frederick Keener and Susan Lorsch (New York: Greenwood Press, 1988), 29-35.
• Lorraine McMullen, "Frances Brooke's Old Maid: New Ideas in Entertaining Form," Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century (1989) 669-70.
• Barbara Godard, "Listening for the Silence: Native Women's Traditional Narratives," in The Native in Literature, ed. Thomas King, Cheryl Calver, and Helen Hoy (Toronto: ECW Press, 1987), 133-58.
• K.J.H. Berland, "The True Epicurean Philosopher: Some Influences on Frances Brooke's History of Emily Montague," Dalhousie Review 66 (1986): 286-300.
• Ann Edwards Boutelle, "Frances Brooke's Emily Montague (1769): Canada and Woman's Rights," Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 12 (1986): 7-16.
• Katherine M. Rogers, "Dreams and Nightmares: Male Characters in the Feminine Novel of the Eighteenth Century," in Men by Women, ed. Janet Todd, Women in Literature, n.s. 2 (New York: Holmes & Meier, 1982), 9-24.
• Lorraine McMullen, "Double Image: Frances Brooke's Women Characters," World Literature Written in English 21, no. 2 (Summer 1982): 356-63.
• Mary Jane Edwards, "Frances Brooke's The History of Emily Montague: A Biographical Context," English Studies in Canada 7, no. 2 (Summer 1981): 171-82.
• Konrad Gross, "The Image of French-Canada in Early English-Canadian Fiction," in English Literature of the Dominions: Writings on Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, ed. Konrad Gross and Wolfgang Klooss (Wurzburg: Konighausen & Neuman, 1981), 69-79.
• Margaret Anne Doody, "George Eliot and the Eighteenth-Century Novel," Nineteenth-Century Fiction 35 (December 1980): 260-91.
• Mary Jane Edwards, "Frances Brooke's Politics and The History of Emily Montague," in The Canadian Novel, ed. John Moss, vol. 2, Beginnings (Toronto: ECW Press, 1980): 19-27.
• Lorraine McMullen, "Frances Brooke's Early Fiction," Canadian Literature 86 (1980): 31-40.
• Lorraine McMullen, "The Divided Self," Atlantis: A Women's Studies Journal 5 (1980): 53-67.
• Linda Shohet, "An Essay on The History of Emily Montague," in The Canadian Novel, ed. John Moss, vol. 2, Beginnings (Toronto: ECW Press, 1980), 19-27.
• Katherine M. Rogers, "Sensibility and Feminism: The Novels of Frances Brooke," Genre 11, no. 2 (Summer 1978): 159-71.
• Lorraine McMullen, "All's Right at Last: An Eighteenth-Century Canadian Novel," Journal of Canadian Fiction 21 (1978): 95-104.
• George Woodcock, "Possessing the Land: Notes on Canadian Fiction," in The Canadian Imagination: Dimensions of a Literary Culture, ed. David Staines (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1977), 69-96.
• James J. Talman and Ruth Talman, "The Canadas 1736-1812," in Literary History of Canada, 2nd edition, vol. 1, ed. Carl F. Klinck (Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1976), 97-105.
• Lorraine McMullen, "Frances Brooke and Memoirs of the Marquis de St. Forlaix," Canadian Notes and Queries 18 (December 1976): 8-9.
• William H. New, "The Old Maid: Frances Brooke's Apprentice Feminism," Journal of Canadian Fiction 2, no. 3 (Summer 1973): 9-12.
• William H. New, "Frances Brooke's Chequered Gardens," Canadian Literature 52 (Spring 1972): 24-38.
• Gwendolyn Needham, "Mrs. Frances Brooke: Dramatic Critic," Theatre Notebook vol. 15 (Winter 1961): 47-55.
• Emile Castonguay, "Mrs. Frances Brooke ou la femme de lettres," in Cinq Femmes et nous (Québec: Belisle, 1950), 9-57.
• Desmond Pacey, "The First Canadian Novel," Dalhousie Review 26 (July 1946): 143-50.
• Bertha M. Sterns, "Early English Periodicals for Ladies," PMLA 48 (1933): 38-60.
• James R. Foster, "The Abbé Prévost and the English Novel," PMLA 42 (1927): 443-64.
• Charles S. Blue, "Canada's First Novelist," Canadian Magazine 58 (November 1921): 3-12.
• Thomas Gutherie Marquis, "English-Canadian Literature," in Canada and Its Provinces ed. Adam Shortt and Arthur Doughty (Toronto: Edinburgh Univ. Press, 1913), 12:493-589.
• Ida Burwash, "An Old-Time Novel," Canadian Magazine 29 (January 1907): 252-56.
• James M. Lemoine, "The First Canadian Novelist, 1769," Maple Leaves 7 (1906): 239-45.