Selected Bibliography:
Frances Moore Brooke

By Jessica Smith and Paula Backscheider,
Auburn University

Last revised 31 March 2000

Bibliographies

• Primary

  • Frans De Bruyn, "Frances Brooke," in The Dictionary of Literary Biography, ed. Martin C. Battestin, vol. 39, parts 1 & 2, British Novelists, 1660-1800 (Detroit: Bruccoli Clark Book, 1985), 65-73.
  • H. George Hahn and Carl Behm III, "Frances Moore Brooke," in The Eighteenth-Century British Novel and Its Background: An Annotated Bibliography and Guide to Topics (Metuchen NJ and London: Scarecrow Press, 1985), 277-78.
  • Clara Thomas, Our Nature -- Our Voices: A Guidebook to English-Canadian Literature (Toronto: New Press, 1972), 1:6-7.
  • Andrew Block, The English Novel, 1740-1850 (London: Grafton & Co., 1939), 171.
  
  

• Secondary

  • Eighteenth-Century Anglo-American Women Novelists: A Reference Guide, ed. Doreen Saar and Mary Anne Schofield (New York: Macmillan, 1996), 18-43.
  • An Annotated Bibliography of Twentieth-Century Critical Studies of Women and Literature, 1660-1800, ed. Paula Backscheider, Felicity Nussbaum, and Philip B. Anderson (New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1977), 110.
  
  

Editions

• Novels

  • The Excursion, ed. Paula R. Backscheider and Hope D. Cotton (Lexington: Univ. Press of Kentucky, 1997).
  • The History of Emily Montague (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1995).
  • The History of Emily Montague, by Frances Brooke, introduced by Mary Jane Edwards (Ottawa: Carleton Univ. Press, Centre for Editing Early Canadian Texts, 1985).
  • The History of Emily Montague (New York: Garland, 1974).
  • The History of Emily Montague, New Canadian Library, vol. 27, introduced by Carl F. Klinck (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1961).
  • The History of Emily Montague, ed. Lawrence J. Burpee (Ottawa: Graphic Publishers, 1931).
  • Lady Julia Mandeville, by Frances Brooke, ed. E. Phillips Poole (London: Eric Partridge, Scholartis, 1930).
  
  

• Archives & Depositories

  • The Houghton Library, Harvard University, has a large collection of Brooke's letters and manuscripts, including 24 letters to Richard Gifford, and the manuscript of Rosina.
  • Some letters and family papers are in the Lincolnshire Archives, Lincoln.
  • Some letters are in the manuscript collections of the British Library and the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
  • Some documents concerning the Brooke family are reprinted in Frederick Philip Grove's appendix to The History of Emily Montague, by Emily Montague, edited by Lawrence J. Burpee (Ottawa: Graphic Publishers, 1931).
  
  

Biographies & Biographical Notes

• K. J. H. Berland, "Frances Brooke and David Garrick," Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 20 (1990), 217-30.
• Virginia Blain, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, "Brooke, Frances," in The Feminist Companion to Literature in English (New Haven and London: Yale Univ. Press, 1990), 142-43.
• Robert Dodsley, The Correspondence of Robert Dodsley 1733-1764, ed. James E. Tierney (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1988), 462, 479-81, 488, 548.
• Frans De Bruyn, "Frances Brooke," in The Dictionary of Literary Biography, ed. Martin C. Battestin, vol. 39, parts 1 & 2, British Novelists, 1660-1800 (Detroit: Bruccoli Clark Book, 1985), 65-73.
• Lorraine McMullen, "Brooke, Frances," in A Dictionary of British and American Women Writers, 1660-1800, ed. Janet Todd (Totowa, NJ: Rowman & Allanheld, 1985), 60-61.
• Lorraine McMullen, An Odd Attempt in a Woman: The Literary Life of Frances Brooke (Vancouver: Univ. of British Columbia Press, 1983).
• Lorraine McMullen, "Frances Brooke (1724-1789)," in Canadian Writers and Their Works, ed. Robert Lecker, Jack David, and Ellen Quigley, Fiction Series, no. 1 (Toronto: ECW Press, 1983), 56-60.
• 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.
• James C. Nicholls, ed., Mme Riccoboni's Letters to David Hume, David Garrick and Sir Robert Liston, 1764-1783, Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 149 (1976); see esp. pp. 42-47, 415-17, 424-27.
• Philip H. Highfill, Jr., Kalman A. Burnim, and Edward A. Langhans, eds., "Brooke, Mrs. John, Frances, née Moore," in A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers, & Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800 (Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois Univ. Press, 1973): 2:352.
• Clara Thomas, Our Nature -- Our Voices: A Guidebook to English-Canadian Literature (Toronto: New Press, 1972), 1:6-7.
• Henry Mackenzie, Letters to Elizabeth Rose of Kilravock: On Literary Events and People, 1768-1815, ed. Horst W. Drescher (Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1967); see esp. pp. 20-23, 69-73.
• Guy Sylvestre, Brandon Conron, and Carl F. Klinck, eds. Canadian Writers (Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1964), 11-12.
• Robert Palfrey Utter and Gwendolyn Bridges Needham, Pamela's Daughters (New York: Macmillan, 1936); see esp. pp. 120-27, 184-85, 296.
• B. C. Nangle, The Monthly Review, First Series, 1749-1789 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1934), 67.

Criticism

• Monographs

  • Cheryl Turner, Living by the Pen: Women Writers in the Eighteenth Century (London and New York: Routledge, 1992).
  • Katherine Sobba Green, The Courtship Novel 1740-1820: A Feminized Genre (Lexington: Univ. Press of Kentucky, 1991).
  • Kathryn Shevelow, Women and Print Culture: The Construction of Femininity in the Early Periodical (London and New York: Routledge, 1989).
  • Janet Todd, The Sign of Angellica: Women, Writing, and Fiction 1660-1800 (London: Virago; New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1989).
  • John Mullan, Sentiment and Sociability (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988).
  • Hallvard Dahlie, Varieties of Exile: The Canadian Experience (Vancouver: Univ. of British Columbia Press, 1986).
  • Ann Messenger, His and Hers: Essays in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature (Lexington: Univ. Press of Kentucky, 1986).
  • Jane Spencer, The Rise of the Woman Novelist: From Aphra Behn to Jane Austen (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986).
  • Katherine M. Rogers, Feminism in Eighteenth-Century England (Urbana: Univ. of Illinois, 1982).
  • John Moss, Patterns of Isolation in English-Canadian Fiction (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1974).
  • Ronald Sutherland, Second Image: Comparative Studies in Quebec/Canadian Literature (Toronto: New Press, 1971).
  • Philippe Séjourné, Aspects Généraux du roman féminin en Angleterre de 1740 à 1800, Publication des Annales de la Faculté des Lettres Aix-en-Provence, Nouvelle série, no. 52 (Aix-en-Provence: Éditions Ophrys, 1966).
  • Lionel Stevenson, The English Novel: A Panorama, 2nd ed. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1978).
  • James Ralph Foster, History of the Pre-Romantic Novel in England (New York: Modern Language Association, 1949).
  • B. G. MacCarthy, The Female Pen, vol. 1, The Later Women Novelists 1744-1818 (Oxford: B. H. Blackwell, 1947).
  • Francis Wright, Sensibility in English Prose Fiction 1760-1814: A Reinterpretation, Illinois Studies in Language and Literature, vol. 22, nos. 3-4 (Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1937).
  • Robert Palfrey Utter and Gwendolyn Bridges Needham, Pamela's Daughters (New York: Macmillan, 1936).
  • Harold Wade Streeter, The Eighteenth-Century Novel in Translation (New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1936).
  • Ernest A. Baker, The History of the English Novel, vol. 5, The Novel of Sentiment and the Gothic Romance (London: H. F. & G. Witherby, 1934), 144-46.
  • Godfrey Frank Singer, The Epistolary Novel: Its Origins,Development, Decline and Residuary Development (New York: Russell & Russell, 1933)
  • J. M. S. Tompkins, The Popular Novel in England, 1770-1800 (London: Constable & Co., 1932).
  • Emily A. Crosby, Une romancière oubliée: Madame Riccoboni, sa vie, ses oeuvres, sa place dans la littérature anglaise et française du XVIIIe siècle (Paris: F. Fieder, 1924).
  
  

• Essays

  • Juliet McMaster, "Young Jane Austen and the First Canadian Novel: From Emily Montague to Amelia Webster and Love and Friendship," 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' [sic]," 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 Literature, ed. Frederick Keener and Susan Lorsch (New York: Greenwood Press, 1989), 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.
  
  

Electronic Resources

• E-text of The History of Lady Julia Mandeville (1765 edition), provided by the University of Virginia Library: http://eserver.org/18th/ (there are many eighteenth-century texts here, in alphabetical order by author's last name).
• "A Celebration of Women Writers," supplies links to these texts: The History of Emily Montague (1769 edition), The History of Lady Julia Mandeville (1763 edition), and The History of Lady Julia Mandeville (1765 edition). These texts are provided by the Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions and the University of Virginia. This website provides links to hundreds of e-texts; search by author's last name to find Brooke's novels: http://www.cs.cmu.edu:80/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/mmbt/www/women

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