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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Penelope Aubin
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 Illustres FrançaisesEighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol.
14
, No. 1, Oct. 2001, pp. 95-109.
95
and dedicated to the scholar William Smithson
, who was Aubin's personal physician. Her version had...
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Charles, Shelly. “Fortune des illustres: la traduction anglaise des Illustres FrançaisesEighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol.