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). | |