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. Juliet Lady Catesby esteems for Sir William Manly who engages her to explain herself to him, with a freedom, where she perhaps, dispense with herself, from using to another. She believes Lady Henrietta Campley, since she is amiable, well made and prudent. So many perfections, if Henrietta joins constancy to them, which will render the woman, who loves her.
