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Fiction Historical

The Lily and the Cross

A Tale of Acadia

by (author) James De Mille

introduction by Michael Peterman

Publisher
Formac Publishing Company Limited
Initial publish date
Aug 2011
Category
Historical, Adult, Historical
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780887809743
    Publish Date
    Aug 2011
    List Price
    $16.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780887809767
    Publish Date
    Aug 2011
    List Price
    $16.99

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Description

Intrigues from Old France haunt the lives of young lovers as they face revenge and death in this pre-Acadian Deportation novel that ranges from Boston to Grand Pré to Fortress Louisbourg. Published in Boston in 1874, The Lily and the Cross demonstrates New Brunswick-born James De Mille at his popular story-telling best.

About the authors

JAMES DE MILLE was born in Saint John, NB, in 1833, and educated at Acadia College, Wolfville, NS, and Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. He taught classics at Acadia College, and rhetoric and history at Dalhousie College in Halifax. He had a successful career as a prolific and popular novelist. He died in 1880, and his best known novel, "A Stange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder", was published posthumously in 1888.

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Michael Peterman is professor emeritus and past Chairman of the Department of English, Trent University. He is a co-editor of Susanna Moodie: Letters of a Lifetime and Letters of Love and Duty: The Correspondence of Susanna and John Moodie.

Michael Peterman's profile page