Universitas Press

The History of Emily Montague is considered the first Canadian novel. Written by a British colonist, Frances Brooke, in an epistolary form, the novel is remarkable for its observations of the lives and traditions of Quebecers and “Natives,” as well as the manners of the British upper classes. This is a scholarly edition that brings to light new information about the times and the context of the novel.

FRANCES BROOKE was born in England in 1724. She moved to Quebec with her husband, where she chronicled her life as a first-generation English colonist.

October 2022 | 400 pages, 6 x 9 in. | 978-1-988963-40-2 HC $47.00 / £37.00 GBP

Edited by Henry M. Wallace

A first anthology of its kind, A Dark Conspiracy and Other Nineteenth-Century Canadian Short Stories in English anthologizes the best stories written by Canadians. Among the authors in the collection, one can find May Agnes Fleming, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Susanna Moodie, Duncan Campbell Scott, and Stephen Leacock.

HENRY M. WALLACE is a nineteenth-century specialist who has published anthologies of British short stories.

December 2022 | 440 pages, 6 x 9 in., 40 illus. | 978-1-988963-41-9 PB $41.00 / £33.00 GBP

The last work published by Eliot in her lifetime, The Impressions of Theophrastus Such is her literary and philosophical testament. An experimental novel, The Impressions lies halfway between Sterne’s Tristram Shandy and Nabokov’s Pale Fire both in time and style. This is the first contemporary scholarly edition of the novel. It is a tribute to Eliot’s writing and a literary rescue operation.

GEORGE ELIOT (born Mary Ann Evans in 1819) is one of the greatest writers of the English language. Her best-known works are Middlemarch, Adam Bede, and Silas Marner.

November 2022 | 240 pages, 6 x 9 in. | 978-1-988963-39-6 HC $47.00 / £37.00 GBP