Jacques Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

She attended school in England and had her French polished in Paris. Her interest in the island of Mauritius was first aroused by studying Bernardin de Saint-Pierre 's eighteenth-century novel Paul et Virginie.

On her return to Paris after Robespierre's death, HMW and Stone lived in a house (where she held her salon) on the Quai Malaquais. After peace was announced between England and France in 1801...

EG 's version of Marie-Madeleine de Lafayette 's The Princess of Cleves. An Historical Novel is available in the Chawton House Library Novels On-line series at http://www.chawtonhouse.org/?page_id=55488. Her version of Aphra Behn 's Oroonoko,...

She spent more than four years (including a period of home leave) on Mauritius. She had a long-standing interest in the island, first awoken by Bernardin de Saint-Pierre 's Paul et Virginie and further...

The play begins on the island of Palma (that is, the Spanish island of Mallorca—called by the English Majorca—whose capital is a town called Palma). The island in the original novel was Mauritius. In...

This epistolary novel charts the growth of love between two innocent, idealistic youngsters who barely understand their own feelings; the girl (named Olivia, like Owenson's sister ) is betrothed to someone else. Rousseau 's Nouvelle...

HMW dated the preface to Paul and Virginia, her translation of Paul et Virginie, the famous sentimental novel by Bernardin de Saint-Pierre .

Her remarkable though unsuccessful financial investment in the works of von Humboldt has been discussed by Nigel Leask in Women, Writing and the Public Sphere, 1700-1830, edited by Elizabeth Eger , Charlotte Grant ,...

This three-act romantic drama is founded on the novel by Bernardin de Saint-Pierre which was titled in its English translation by Helen Maria WilliamsPaul and Virginia, June 1795. After the first act, though...