 | John Nichols - Authors, English - 1812 - 764 pages
...contributions." * This very excellent lady, whose maiden name was Moore, was the daughter of a clergyman, and the wife of the Rev. John Brooke, rector of Colney in Norfolk, of St. Augustine, in the city of Norwich, and chaplain to the garrison of Quebec. She was as remarkable... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - English drama - 1812 - 476 pages
...Belisarius. Traa;. BROOKR, FRANCRS. This lady, whose maiden name was Moore, was the daughter of a clergyman, and the wife of the Rev. John Brooke, rector of Colney, in NorF4 folk, of St. Augustine, in the city of Norwich, and chaplain to the garrison of Quebec. Her husband... | |
 | John Nichols - Authors, English - 1812 - 788 pages
...contributions." * This very excellent lady, whose maiden name was Moore, •was the daughter of a clergyman, und the wife of the Rev. John Brooke, rector of Colney in Norfolk, of St. Augustine, in the city of Norwich, and chaplain to the garrison of Quebec. She was as remarkable... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - Dramatists, English - 1812 - 472 pages
...Belisarius. Trag. BROOKE, FRANCES. This lady, whose maiden name was Moore, was the daughter of a clergyman, and the wife of the Rev. John Brooke, rector of Colney, in NorF4 to fame. 7* 3RD folk, .of St. Augustine, In the city of Norwich, and chaplain to the garrison... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1813 - 508 pages
...BRONZING. See ALLGRI. BROOKE (FRANCES), whose maiden name was Moore, was the daughter of a clergyman, and the wife of the rev. John Brooke, rector of Colney in Norfolk, of St. Augustine in the city of Norwich, and chaplain to the garrison of Quebec. She was as remarkable... | |
 | Sleaford (England) - 1825 - 454 pages
...but the work by which he will % The inscription to bis memory may be seen at page fifty-eight. evef be distinguished, is the " Biographia Britannica."...periodical work, entitled " The Old Maid," which has since heen formed into one volume. In 1756, she published " Virginia," a tragedy, and being dissatisfied... | |
 | Sir James MacPherson Le Moine - Birds - 1906 - 488 pages
...Montague," Frances Brooke. "An ingenious lady,, whose name was Moore, the daughter of a clergyman, and the wife of the Rev. John Brooke, rector of Colney, in Norfolk, of St. Augustin, in Norwich, and chaplain to the garrison of Quebec. Her first literary work was the... | |
 | William Stewart Wallace - Canada - 1926 - 452 pages
...parl. comp.] BROOKE, FRANCES, nee MOORE (17451789), novelist, was born in England in 1745. She was the wife of the Rev. John Brooke, rector of Colney in Norfolk and afterwards (circa 176068) garrison chaplain at Quebec. She joined her husband in Quebec about 1764,... | |
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This lady, whose maiden name was Moore, was the daughter of a clergyman, and the wife of the Rev. John Brooke, rector of Colney, in NorF4 to fame. 