ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the English translations of two of the most popular eighteenth-century French novel "Letters from Juliet Lady Catesby to her friend Lady Henrietta Campley" written by Marie Jeanne Riccoboni. Frances Brooke started her literary career in 1755 writing for the weekly periodical the Old Maid. Having translated Riccoboni's novel in 1760, which was a great success in England where it saw seven editions during Brooke's lifetime and established Riccoboni's reputation. She went on to publish her own first novel in 1763, the successful History of Lady Julia Mandeville. Though Sir William Manly is Juliet Lady Catesby most esteemed friend, she have a kind of repugnance at confessing William her weaknesses. But he comes with sad, indisposed, dying than ever. He brings her some pamphlets that are worth nothing, even before she sees them.
