In this text the titular heroine narrates her experiences at the French boarding school Les Avons. Here, Olivia forms friendships with several other schoolgirls, but is most fascinated by her headmistress, Mlle Julie, who runs...
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Catharine Trotter
The letters published by Birch reflect an intellect dealing in literary as well as moral debate. To Thomas Burnet of KemnayCT
wrote of religious and philosophical matters; he was her link to currents of...
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Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan
Morgan describes chiefly Paris and its society, ostensibly on the model of Germaine de Staël
's L'Allemagne. She does indeed include French culture centrally among her topics: she criticises the works of Corneille
and...