Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni [ Art and Literature / Reading & Writing ]
… Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni gave to her novels as much as in the names of her characters. Her correspondence with David Garrick and Robert Liston also reveals the fundamental role sociability played in both the circulation of theatrical … sociability which thrived during the Enlightenment 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). Riccoboni wrote her first novel in …
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