Elizabeth Posthuma Simcoe, 1762-1850 - A Biography

Zusatztext Well researched and readable as a novel. It will delight everyone concerned with English upper-class life in the age of the Prince Regent or with the troubled rise of pioneer Ontario. Informationen zum Autor Mary Beacock Fryer is a well known expert on Upper Canadian history. She has written a trilogy on the Simcoe family: Elizabeth Posthuma Simcoe: A Biography , Our Young Soldier: Lieutenant Francis Simcoe, 6 June 1791-6 April 1812 , and John Graves Simcoe: 1752-186, A Biography . Among Fryer's other books are Escape , Beginning Again , and Buckskin Pimpernel . Klappentext The diaries, letters, and sketches of Elizabeth Simcoe are drawn upon as sources in this portrayal of the energetic and remarkable woman who came to Upper Canada with her husband when he was appointed lieutenant governor. Mary Beacock Fryer is the author of eleven books on eighteenth and nineteenth century history. Zusammenfassung The diaries, letters, and sketches of Elizabeth Simcoe portray the remarkable woman who came to Upper Canada when her husband was appointed lieutenant-governor.

Product details

• Authors: Mary Beacock Fryer, Mary Beacock Fryer, Fryer Mary Beacock
• Publisher: Dundurn Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.1989
• EAN: 9781550020649
• ISBN: 978-1-55002-064-9
• No. of pages: 276
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous