Introduction; Part I; Chapter 1. Frances Brooke’s Periodical, Translations, and Novels in Context: A Short Introduction; Chapter 2. The Old Maid; Chapter 3. The History of Lady Julia Mandeville; Chapter 4. The History of Emily Montague; Chapter 5. The Excursion; Part II; Chapter 6. Brooke’s Tragedies and Comic Operas in Context: A Short Introduction; Chapter 7. Virginia; Chapter 8. The Siege of Sinope; Chapter 9. Rosina; Chapter 10. Marian; Conclusion
Biography
Dr. Michaela Vance is a researcher in eighteenth-century literature specializing in theories of education, virtue, and narrative. She has published on the role of the humanities in military education, focusing on critical and creative thinking. Her first monograph is the result of over a decade of research on Brooke, having begun as a PhD thesis at Stockholm University. Based in Stockholm with her husband Shawn, daughters Saga and Vera, and perpetual puppy Peralta, she teaches English at the Swedish Defence University.






