RICCOBONI, MARIE JEANNE (1714-1792)

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RICCOBONI, MARIE JEANNE (1714-1792) , whose maiden name was Laboras de Mezieres, was born at Paris in 1714. She married in 1735 Antoine Francois Riccoboni, a comedian and dramatist, from whom she soon separated. She herself was an actress,. but did not succeed on the stage. Her works are Lettres de mistress Fanny Butler (1757); the remarkable Histoire du marquis de Cressy (1758); Milady Juliette Catesby (1759-1760), like her other books, in

letter

LETTER (through Fr. lettre from Lat. littera or litera, letter of the alphabet; the origin of the Latin word is obscure; it has probably no connexion with the root of linere, to smear, i.e. with wax, for an inscription with a stilus)

form; Ernestine (1798), which La Harpe thought her masterpiece; and three

series

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

of Lettres in the names of Adelaide de Dammartin (comtesse de Sancerre) (2 vols., 1766), Elizabeth Sophie de Valliere (2 vols., 1772), and Milord Rivers (2 vols., 1776). She obtained a small pension from the crown, but the Revolution deprived her of it, and she died on the 6th of December 1792 in greatindigence. Besides the works named, she wrote a novel (1762) on the subject of

Fielding

FIELDING, ANTHONY VANDYKE COPLEY (1787-1855)
FIELDING,
HENRY
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- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
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- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
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's Amelia, and supplied in 1765 a continuation (but not the conclusion sometimes erroneously ascribed to her) of Marivaux's unfinished Marianne.
All Madame Riccoboni's

work

WORK

is clever, and there is real pathos in it. But it is among the most eminent examples of the "sensibility " novel, of which no examples but Sterne's have kept their place in England, and that not in virtue of their sensibility. A still nearer parallel may be found in the

work

WORK

of Mackenzie. Madame Riccoboni is an especial offender in the use of mechanical aids to impressivenessitalics, dashes, rows of points and the like. The principal edition of her complete works is that of Paris (6 vols., 18,8). The

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

novels appear in a volume of Garnier's Bibliotheque amusante (Paris, 1865).
See Julia

Kavanagh

, French Women of Letters (2 vols., 1862), where an account of her novels is given; J. Fleury, Marivaux et le marivaudage (Paris, 1881); J. M. Querard, La France litteraire (vol. vii., 1835) ; and notices by La Harpe, Grimm and Diderot prefixed to her fEuvres (9 vols., Paris, 1826).

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