… books she had authored or edited. Moreover, Berry did not write poems and novels but preferred the genres of history and biography. 2 This does not mean that she was not acknowledged as an author and editor within her fairly large circle of … 4 She later also edited Madame du Deffand's letters (1810) and Lady Rachel Russell's letters in combination with a biography that she had authored (1819). 5 Her play, Fashionable Friends , was first privately performed at Strawberry …
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… noue des relations précieuses avec des cercles liés au théâtre. 1 . Angeline Goreau, Reconstructing Aphra, a social biography of Aphra Behn (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980), p. 23. Ayant accepté une mission d’espionnage aux …
… (New York: Benjamin Bloom, 1938). 8 . John Vandergucht, ‘D'Urfey, Thomas (1653?–1723)‘, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 15th December 2019 (https://www.oxforddnb.com); Thomas St Serfe for example translated Cyrano de Bergerac from …
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… of Manners, Athens, University of Georgia Press, 1994. 11 . On the issue of celebrity, see for example B. Cowan, ‘News, Biography, and Eighteenth-Century Celebrity’, Oxford Handbooks Online, 1 September 2016 (DOI: …