Graffigny's novel (often referred to in England as Peruvian Letters) is a tour de force of colonial imagination and a response to her friend Montesquieu
's Lettres Persanes or Persian Letters, 1722. Each...
Literary responses
Françoise de Graffigny
The novel's combination of originality and popularity at once provoked debate. Like Samuel Richardson
(who began publishing Clarissa in the year of Lettres d'une Péruvienne), FGreceived numerous letters from readers who begged her...
Publishing
Clara Reeve
Her relations with the magazine were not, however, entirely happy. In October 1773 it had reprinted a song of hers, without permission and with various inaccuracies. In June 1778 it followed on with a similarly...
Textual Features
Radagunda Roberts
In her second volume Roberts introduces debates about friendship (male, female, and between the sexes), and about art and artifice in love. Zilia is conceived as a kind of noble savage, having more exalted notions...
