ABSTRACT

This chapter presents the English translations of most popular eighteenth-century French novel "Letters from Juliet Lady Catesby to her friend Lady Henrietta Campley" written by Marie Jeanne Riccoboni, translated by Frances Brooke. Juliet sends Sir John Aston, without giving him orders to conceal himself, without commanding him not to mention her name. The imprudent creature thought he could not execute his commission, by going directly to Sir Charles Halifax's, enquiring for Abraham, telling him he came from her and desires permission to place himself in Lord Ossory's antichamber. Lord Ossory charms to hear one of her servants near him and that he came by her orders, insisted on seeing him. Sir John, as he told, received this command to enter, with great pleasure: he answered all her Lord's questions with great exactness, assures him, his Lady is dead than alive when she sent him; that she had a great deal of friendship for his Lordship.