Marijn S. Kaplan is a Professor of French at the University of North Texas, where she also chairs the Department of World Languages, Literatures and Cultures. She has published extensively on eighteenth-century French women writers—particularly Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni, Françoise de Graffigny, and Sophie Cottin—epistolary fiction, and correspondence.

"This thoughtful and intriguing work invites readers to re-examine Riccoboni’s epistolary novels in a new way, and to reconsider the role of her proto-feminism in her fiction as well as in her correspondence. The study provides a new and informative understanding of Riccoboni’s works for anyone studying or teaching her works." Jeanne Hageman (North Dakota State University) The French Review 95.1

• Introduction PART ONE: RICCOBONI’S FICTION Chapter 1: Lettres de Fanni Butlerd (1757): The Facts of Fiction and the Fiction of FactsChapter 2: Proto-Feminist Female Identity through Marginal Epistolarity: From Lettres de Juliette Catesby (1759) to Histoire de Miss Jenny (1764)Chapter 3: Perfecting Epistolary Feminism: From Lettres d’Adélaïde de Dammartin (1767) to Lettres de Sophiede Vallière (1772)Chapter 4: Culminating Epistolary Feminism: Lettres de Mylord Rivers (1777)Chapter 5: Epistolary Feminism Attacked in Translation: Percival Stockdale’s Letters from Lord Rivers (1778)PART TWO: RICCOBONI’S CORRESPONDENCE Chapter 6: Epistolary Feminism and Letters Chapter 7: Final Published Letters: Thicknesse (1780) and Laclos (1782) Conclusion Appendix

Marijn S. Kaplan is a Professor of French at the University of North Texas, where she also chairs the Department of World Languages, Literatures and Cultures. She has published extensively on eighteenth-century French women writers—particularly Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni, Françoise de Graffigny, and Sophie Cottin—epistolary fiction, and correspondence.

"This thoughtful and intriguing work invites readers to re-examine Riccoboni’s epistolary novels in a new way, and to reconsider the role of her proto-feminism in her fiction as well as in her correspondence. The study provides a new and informative understanding of Riccoboni’s works for anyone studying or teaching her works." Jeanne Hageman (North Dakota State University) The French Review 95.1

• Introduction PART ONE: RICCOBONI’S FICTION Chapter 1: Lettres de Fanni Butlerd (1757): The Facts of Fiction and the Fiction of FactsChapter 2: Proto-Feminist Female Identity through Marginal Epistolarity: From Lettres de Juliette Catesby (1759) to Histoire de Miss Jenny (1764)Chapter 3: Perfecting Epistolary Feminism: From Lettres d’Adélaïde de Dammartin (1767) to Lettres de Sophiede Vallière (1772)Chapter 4: Culminating Epistolary Feminism: Lettres de Mylord Rivers (1777)Chapter 5: Epistolary Feminism Attacked in Translation: Percival Stockdale’s Letters from Lord Rivers (1778)PART TWO: RICCOBONI’S CORRESPONDENCE Chapter 6: Epistolary Feminism and Letters Chapter 7: Final Published Letters: Thicknesse (1780) and Laclos (1782) Conclusion Appendix

Marijn S. Kaplan is a Professor of French at the University of North Texas, where she also chairs the Department of World Languages, Literatures and Cultures. She has published extensively on eighteenth-century French women writers—particularly Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni, Françoise de Graffigny, and Sophie Cottin—epistolary fiction, and correspondence.

"This thoughtful and intriguing work invites readers to re-examine Riccoboni’s epistolary novels in a new way, and to reconsider the role of her proto-feminism in her fiction as well as in her correspondence. The study provides a new and informative understanding of Riccoboni’s works for anyone studying or teaching her works." Jeanne Hageman (North Dakota State University) The French Review 95.1

• Introduction PART ONE: RICCOBONI’S FICTION Chapter 1: Lettres de Fanni Butlerd (1757): The Facts of Fiction and the Fiction of FactsChapter 2: Proto-Feminist Female Identity through Marginal Epistolarity: From Lettres de Juliette Catesby (1759) to Histoire de Miss Jenny (1764)Chapter 3: Perfecting Epistolary Feminism: From Lettres d’Adélaïde de Dammartin (1767) to Lettres de Sophiede Vallière (1772)Chapter 4: Culminating Epistolary Feminism: Lettres de Mylord Rivers (1777)Chapter 5: Epistolary Feminism Attacked in Translation: Percival Stockdale’s Letters from Lord Rivers (1778)PART TWO: RICCOBONI’S CORRESPONDENCE Chapter 6: Epistolary Feminism and Letters Chapter 7: Final Published Letters: Thicknesse (1780) and Laclos (1782) Conclusion Appendix