Mme Riccoboni's Letters to David Hume, David Garrick and Sir Robert Liston, 1764-1783

by Marie-Jeanne de Heurles Laboras de Mezières Riccoboni

If Mme de Riccoboni's novels were widely known to the reading public of the eighteenth century, her best and most original productions were reserved for the privileged few who received her letters.

Mme de Riccoboni led a secluded life; she had no enemies and very few close friends. Her opinions tend to be disinterested and objective, unmotivated by spite or personal animosity. Her judgements on literary works, people and events were, however,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0729400433
• ISBN13: 9780729400435
• Release Date: January 1976
• Publisher: Voltaire Foundation in Association with Liver
• Length: 471 Pages