Lorraine McMullen
Standard Name: McMullen, Lorraine
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Birth | Frances Brooke | Two out of three sisters in the family survived into adulthood. Biographer Lorraine McMullen
calls Frances the second-born, but Mary Jane Edwards
in ODNB calls her the eldest. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Brooke | The date of the wedding of Frances Moore
to the Rev. John Brooke
, a widower, has not been solidly established. Her biographer Lorraine McMullen
thought it might have been at any date before March... |
| Friends, Associates | Radagunda Roberts | Though very little is known of RR
's life, she was well acquainted with at least one other woman writer: Frances Brooke
(whose son attended St Paul's while Roberts's brother was High Master, and who... |
| Literary responses | Annie Louisa Walker | The Athenæum found this novel similar toa great deal of other work done by women. We cannot but admire the application and energy which they display; but looking merely at the result, we find... |
| Textual Features | Frances Brooke | This novel is best known for its picture of settler or habitant life in Lower Canada, which FB
drew from her own years there. From a tourist point of view Lower Canada is idyllic... |
| Textual Production | Frances Brooke | FB
's biographer Lorraine McMullen
guesses that Brooke may have taken her Mary Singleton pseudonym from a letter on the unmarried state which appeared in the popular periodical The World (edited by Edward Moore
—no... |
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