R. Howard Bloch

Having been influential for a couple of centuries after her period of activity, MF re-entered modern literary consciousness with a late-eighteenth-century critical work by Gervais de La Rue , translated into English under the auspices...

Mary Matilda Betham on the one hand invented a romantic parentage for MF and related her imaginary life story in a long poem, and on the other hand produced modernised summaries of her lais. A...