books.google.ca - "There are two ladies in the province, I am told, who read," writes Frances Brooke's Arabella Fermor, "but both are above fifty and are regarded as prodigies of erudition." Brooke's "The History of Emily Montague "(1769) was the first work of fiction to be set in Canada, and also the first book to reflect...http://books.google.ca/books/about/Literary_Culture_and_Female_Authorship_i.html?id=6IcoUxoP8qsC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareLiterary Culture and Female Authorship in Canada
