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(RICCOBONI, Marie Jeanne). Lettres De Milady Juliette Catesby, A Milady Henriette Camply, Son Amie.
Amsterdam: np, 1759. First edition. (BOUND WITH): RICCOBONI, Marie Jeanne. Lettres De Mistress Fanni Butlerd, A Milord Charles Alfred...
Paris: Par La Societe Des Libraires, 1759. Second edition. 12mo., full cont. calf, gilt decoration in the spine, leather spine labels, 250; (4), (1)-188pp. Outer front hinge starting, small piece out at the foot of the spine with light wear to extremities but certainly a very good copy. These editions are often found bound together.
Marie Jeanne Riccoboni [1714-1792] French epistolary novelist. She was orphaned at an early age and left in the care of her aunt. Marie left her aunt in order to pursue what was an unsuccessful career as an actress. It was during her attempts at acting that she met and married her husband, an equally mediocre actor named Riccoboni. Their union was an unhappy one, with Marie Jeanne left lonely and impoverished by her husband's infidelities. In order to support herself, she decided to try her hand at writing and with the publication of her first book, "Fanni..." she began her career as a novelist. "Fanni" is a novel in epistolary form, a history which purports to follow the misfortunes of the heroine, Fanni, who is the first of Riccoboni's"much wronged heroines." Her next work, "Histoire du Marquis de Cressy" (1758) was well received by the critics and quite successful. It was with the publication of her next work, the above, "Lettres De Milady Juliette Catesby" that Riccoboni secured her place among the great romance writers of the 18th century. In fact, with each of the early novels, there was much speculation that their author "could not have been a woman." "All M. Riccoboni's work is clever, with real pathos; amongst the best examples of the sensibility novel." "As an author, she occupies a very distinguished place in our pleasant literature. Few women, and even few men, thought with such finesse or wrote with such spirit..." Mme. Riccoboni's works were translated into English and were quite influential in their English versions. Unfortunately she ended her life in poverty, with the Revolution depriving her of the small pension the French court had awarded her.
$1,250
(RICCOBONI, Marie Jeanne). Lettres De Milady Juliette Catesby, A Milady Henriette Camply, Son Amie. Amsterdam: np, 1759. First edition. (BOUND WITH): RICCOBONI, Marie Jeanne. Lettres De Mistress Fanni Butlerd, A Milord Charles Alfred...
Paris: Par La Societe Des Libraires, 1759. Second edition. 12mo., full cont. calf, gilt decoration in the spine, leather spine labels, 250; (4), (1)-188pp. Outer front hinge starting, small piece out at the foot of the spine with light wear to extremities but certainly a very good copy. These editions are often found bound together.
Marie Jeanne Riccoboni [1714-1792] French epistolary novelist. She was orphaned at an early age and left in the care of her aunt. Marie left her aunt in order to pursue what was an unsuccessful career as an actress. It was during her attempts at acting that she met and married her husband, an equally mediocre actor named Riccoboni. Their union was an unhappy one, with Marie Jeanne left lonely and impoverished by her husband's infidelities. In order to support herself, she decided to try her hand at writing and with the publication of her first book, "Fanni..." she began her career as a novelist. "Fanni" is a novel in epistolary form, a history which purports to follow the misfortunes of the heroine, Fanni, who is the first of Riccoboni's"much wronged heroines." Her next work, "Histoire du Marquis de Cressy" (1758) was well received by the critics and quite successful. It was with the publication of her next work, the above, "Lettres De Milady Juliette Catesby" that Riccoboni secured her place among the great romance writers of the 18th century. In fact, with each of the early novels, there was much speculation that their author "could not have been a woman." "All M. Riccoboni's work is clever, with real pathos; amongst the best examples of the sensibility novel." "As an author, she occupies a very distinguished place in our pleasant literature. Few women, and even few men, thought with such finesse or wrote with such spirit..." Mme. Riccoboni's works were translated into English and were quite influential in their English versions. Unfortunately she ended her life in poverty, with the Revolution depriving her of the small pension the French court had awarded her.
$1,250
