Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni [ Art and Literature / Reading & Writing ]
… an impartial foreign observer to address certain philosophical and political issues. Riccoboni was a voracious reader of Samuel Richardson , Edward Young, Joseph Addison , and Alexander Pope . In Paris, she also rubbed shoulders with figures such as … who found, in the epistolary dialogue, the perfect complement to the art of conversation. Though she was not fond of Richardson’s novels, nor the ‘rage for sensibility’ that had conquered Paris, 4 her stories of British heroes and …
Anglomania | Correspondence | France | Friendship | Theatre
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