Frances Brooke

For the lady-in-waiting, married name Frances Brooke, see Frances Newton, Lady Cobham.

Frances Brooke
Frances Brooke
Frances Brooke by Catherine Read ca. 1771
Born
Frances Moore

(1724-01-12)12 January 1724
Claypole, Lincolnshire, England
Died23 January 1789(1789-01-23) (aged 65)
Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England
OccupationEnglish-Canadian writer

Frances Brooke (née Moore; 12 January 1724 – 23 January 1789) was an English novelist, essayist, playwright and translator. Hers was the first English novel known to have been written in Canada.[1]

  1. ^ Todd, Dennis; Wall, Cynthia; Wall (2001). Eighteenth-century Genre and Culture: Serious Reflections on Occasional Forms: Essays in Honour of J. Paul Hunter. Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses. p. 190. ISBN 0-87413-759-4.