Antoinette de Mirecourt

Antoinette de Mirecourt is a Canadian classic, first published in 1864. Its author, Rosanna Leprohon (1829-1879) was a Montrealer who married a French Canadian. Most of her fiction deals with the relationships between English and French Canadians in 19th-century Canada. This scholarly edition includes an introduction by a Canadian specialist as well as a large number of footnotes.

Rosanna Leprohon (1829-1879) was born and died in Montreal. She was one of the most important Canadian novelists of the nineteenth century. She was deeply interested in the lives of the French Canadians. Her best-known novel is Antoinette de Mirecourt.