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Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni [ Art and Literature / Reading & Writing ]
… that drew its vitality from the vast literary and theatrical production of both countries. Riccoboni was not a woman of the salons—she was a woman of letters who found, in the epistolary dialogue, the perfect complement to the art of conversation. Though she was …
Anglomania | Correspondence | France | Friendship | Theatre
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London theatres (and their audiences) [ Sports & Leisure ]
… indignation was actually a ploy designed to promote the success of the play through scandal. Aphra Behn —the first woman to make a living from writing for the theatre—regularly ascribed failures in her writing to her gender, though this …
Audience | Court | Theatre | Women
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Giacomo Casanova [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
Aristocracy | Diplomacy | Finance | Gambling | Memoirs | Networks | Theatre
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Frances Burney, Mme d’Arblay (1752-1840) [ Art and Literature ]
Fiction | Masquerade | Memoirs | Theatre | Women
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