Frances Brooke was a novelist, dramatist, and translator. She was born Frances Moore in England in 1724.
Brooke moved to Quebec when her husband became the military chaplain to the British garrison there. Her life in Quebec was the basis for The History of Emily Montague. Brooke used a series of letters from Canada to England to describe the inhabitants, customs, and way of living in the Canadian wilderness to her readers in England.
Brooke died in 1789.
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