Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni [ Art and Literature / Reading & Writing ]
… held a special allure for French readers. This attraction is evident in the titles 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 … in Paris with her friend, former actress Thérèse Biancolelli, on rue Poissonnière. The titles she would give to her novels reflect the enthusiasm French readers had for English literature, and the strong ties that united the two … David Garrick, Robert Liston, ed. James C. Nicholls (Oxford, The Voltaire Foundation, 1976). Riccoboni wrote her first novel in 1735, entitled Lettres de mistriss Fanny Butlerd à Milord Charles Alfred de Caitombridge, comte de Plinsinte, …
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