Told in letters, the novel follows Colonel Edward Rivers, an English officer newly arrived in conquered Quebec, who falls in love with the beautiful Emily Montague although she is engaged to another. Their story is set beside the witty letters of the coquette Arabella Fermor, full of Canadian winters, sleigh rides, habitant life and Indigenous customs.
Published in 1769 by a writer who lived in Quebec, a lively epistolary romance and a landmark of early North American fiction. Download the free EPUB.