Molière

It was said that she read Molière at twelve, and that she disguised herself as a boy in order to study at Cambridge University .

This satirizes as Sir Patient Fancy a strongly Whiggish London alderman, Sir Patience Ward . It borrows a good deal from Molière : chiefly, and with acknowledgement, from Le malade imaginaire, but also from...

She gives her chapters epigraphs, many of them eighteenth-century: the Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz, quoted in French on the title-page and to open volume three; Molière and Pope 's Rape of the Lock...