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(Substitute) Motherhood in Two Novels by Marie Jeanne Riccoboni

Description: Article on two novels by author Marie Jeanne Riccoboni, 'Histoire d'Ernestine,' published in 1765, and 'Lettres d'Elisabeth Sophie de Vallière à Louise Hortence de Canteleu, son amie,' published in 1772.
Date: 2005
Creator: Kaplan, Marijn S.
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East Germany

Description: Encyclopedia article discussing East Germany.
Date: January 2005
Creator: Costabile-Heming, Carol Anne
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Translations and Continuations: Riccoboni and Brooke, Graffigny and Roberts

Description: Article on a Pickering & Chatto publication titled, "Translations and Continuations" as part of its series "Chawton House Library: Women's Novels. The series presents not only translations from the French but also continuations to one of the French texts.
Date: 2011
Creator: Kaplan, Marijn S.
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Sexual Contract and mariage blanc: Marie Jeanne Riccoboni

Description: Article on sexual contract and mariage blanc. Abstract: Reading Marie Jeanne Riccoboni's biography as exemplifying eighteenth-century marriage based on women's limited legal recourse within the marriage contract, I argue that the author offers women an empowering alternative to the sexual contract in her fiction, a mariage blanc based on friendship.
Date: 2005
Creator: Kaplan, Marijn S.
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Gender Transformation/Geschlechtertausch

Description: Encyclopedia article on literary themes in texts that focus on the sexual change (from man to woman or from woman to man) of a main character.
Date: February 28, 1997
Creator: Costabile-Heming, Carol Anne
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