Frances Brooke [née Moore]

(1724-1789)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Brooke, Frances, 1724?-1789 NRA: Brooke, Frances (1724-1789) nee Moore, Novelist and Playwright called Mary Singleton then Mrs Brooke DNB: Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789), writer and playwright LBT ID: FrBrook1789 VIAF ID: 5193747 LOC ID: n82229184	B/BAP: 1724-01-24 DIED: 1789-01-23
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English novelist who in 1756 married the Rev. John Brooke with whom she travelled to Canada where she wrote her best-known novel, The History of Emily Montague (1769).
REFERENCES TO Frances Brooke [née Moore]: William Field, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of the Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D.; with Biographical Notices of many of his Friends, Pupils, and Contemporaries. 2 vols (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Ch X. 1816-1820 Found 1: ¶ 33