Antoinette de Mirecourt or, Secret Marrying and Secret SorrowingRosanna LeprohonToronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1973200 pagesAntoinette De Mirecourt, or, Secret Marrying and Secret SorrowingRosanna LeprohonOttawa: Carleton University Press, 1989334 pagesSix summers ago, I made slow progress through Armand Durand; ou, La promesse accomplie, the French translation of Rosanna Leprohon's 1868 novel Armand Durand; or, A Promise Fulfilled. It made some sense to take on the challenge. As I noted at the time, the author's novels had been far more popular in French than in the original English. Consider The Manor House of De Villerai, which first appeared in 1859 and 1860 issues of the Montreal Family Herald. Le manoir de Villerai, E.L. de Bellefeulle's translation, was published as a book in 1861, then enjoyed four more editions, the last being in 1925. It wasn't until 2014, a full 154 years after the end of its run in the Family Herald, that The Manor House of De Villerai finally appeared in…
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