The History of Emily Montague 1769 by Frances Brooke 1724-1789
Channel: Age of Enlightenment
Date: 2016-01-22

The History of Emily Montague was the first novel written in Canada and it was written by a woman named Frances Brooke, a minister's wife. She wrote quite a few books. There's a quote from this one below.

 A Jesuit missionary told me a story on this subject, which one cannot hear without horror: an Indian woman with whom he liv'd on his mission was feeding her children, when her husband brought in an English prisoner; she immediately cut off his arm, and gave her children the streaming blood to drink: the Jesuit remonstrated on the cruelty of the action, on which, looking sternly at him, "I would have them warriors," said she, "and therefore feed them with the food of men." 

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