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Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni was born on October 25, 1714 in Paris, France.
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Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni was born on October 25, 1714 in Paris, France.
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 form; Ernestine (1798), which La Harpe thought her masterpiece; and three series 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 great indigence. Besides the works named, she wrote a novel (1762) on the subject of Fielding'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 is clever, and there is real pathos in it. Madame Riccoboni is an especial offender in the use of mechanical aids to impressiveness-italics, dashes, rows of points and the like. A still nearer parallel may be found in the work of Mackenzie. The principal edition of her complete works is that of Paris (6 vols. , 1818). The chief novels appear in a volume of Garnier's Bibliotheque amusante (Paris, 1865).
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She married in 1735 Antoine Francois Riccoboni, a comedian and dramatist, from whom she soon separated.
