Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni [ Art and Literature / Reading & Writing ]
… would form the underpinnings of her enduring friendships with David Garrick and Robert Liston. 1 1 . Mme Riccoboni's Letters to David Hume, David Garrick, Robert Liston, ed. James C. Nicholls (Oxford, The Voltaire Foundation, 1976). … in England and were frequently pirated. Garrick introduced Riccoboni to the bookseller, Thomas Becket ( Mme Riccoboni's Letters , Lettre du 20 novembre 1770, 164) who would publish English translations of most of her novels ( Mme Riccoboni's Letters , Lettre du 1 novembre 1772, 277). It seems she was not entirely satisfied with Becket’s services, however, as …
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