It is translated from Les illustres Françaises by Robert Challe or Challes
(which had appeared anonymously in 1713),
Charles, Shelly. “Fortune des illustres: la traduction anglaise des <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Illustres Françaises</span>”;. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol.
14
, No. 1, pp. 95-109.
95
and dedicated to the scholar William Smithson
, who was Aubin's personal physician. Her version had...
Intertextuality and Influence
Penelope Aubin
Critics have debated how far the abbé Prevost
and Samuel Richardson
(in his first two novels) were influenced by The Illustrious French Lovers. Shelly Charles
accepts that PA
's heroine Angélique was a model...
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Charles, Shelly. “Fortune des illustres: la traduction anglaise des <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Illustres Françaises</span>”;. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol.