Pierre de Marivaux

The circle which ATL gathered as a hostess included, besides Montesquieu (who submitted all his manuscripts to her for comment), Dacier and La Motte , other eminent persons such as writers Marivaux , Fontenelle ,...

The Monthly Review thought that this novel, though stiff and formal, was promising; that it was influenced by Marivaux ' Marianne;and that it was written by a man.Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

A probably pirated Life and Adventures of Indiana, the Virtuous Orphan, appeared, a version of Marivaux 's La vie de Marianne designed to rival MC 's Virtuous Orphan; or, The Life of Marianne...

Evelina opens with an ode to Charles Burney (unnamed) as Author of my Being, which sounds like an apology for having written. The preface acknowledges the formative influence of Richardson (as well as Henry Fielding

MC 's The Virtuous Orphan; or, The Life of Marianne (a translation and free adaptation from Marivaux ) was published.

The History of Miss Indiana Danby in several volumes, by a Lady, was somewhat improbably suspected of being another translation by MC from Marivaux ; if it was hers it must have been posthumous...

The ascription probably follows from the Marivaux translation of 1746, The Life and Adventures of Indiana, the Virtuous Orphan (above). The text of Indiana Danby's first two volumes (which are complete without the later...

LMWM wrote a free translation of Le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard, a comedy by Marivaux ; she titled it Simplicity.

TW has done a number of translations from the work of dramatists in other languages, especially French and ancient Greek. As well as Lorca 's The House of Bernarda Alba, she has translated from...