Antoinette de Mirecourt or Secret Marrying and Secret Sorrowing

By Rosanna Leprohon & John C. Stockdale
Categories: Literary Criticism
Series: Centre for Editing Early Canadian Texts
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Ebook (PDF) : 9780773573536, 335 pages, December 1989
Paperback : 9780886290917, 336 pages, December 1989
Hardcover : 9780886290924, 336 pages, December 1989

Description

A moral exemplum about courtship and marriage, this "essentially Canadian" tale, which takes place in the 1760s, reflects its author's profound and sometimes disturbing knowledge of the bicultural and bilingual society in which she lived.