This charming love story captures the lives of Quebec Citys early Englishspeaking inhabitants the Quebecois and the Native people in the decadebetween Wolfes vi... » 

This charming love story captures the lives of Quebec Citys early Englishspeaking inhabitants the Quebecois and the Native people in the decadebetween Wolfes victory on the Plains of Abraham in 1759 and the American Warof Independence in the 1770s. First published in 1769 The History of EmilyMontague which brings the 18thcentury novel into a New World context isrightly called Canadas indeed North Americas first novel. From thePaperback edition. «