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Receptions
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Found 2400 records
Author of work | Work | Publish year | Receiver | Gender | Reception type | Year | Country | ||
1 | Bury, Lady Charlotte Susan Maria Campbell | *Emma | 1830 | ~~translator (name unknown) | U | Translation | 1839 | France | |
2 | Buurt, Josina Carolina | Kort begrip der beschouwende godgeleerdheid van Adriaan Buurt […] | 1775 | ~~translator male (name below) | M | Adaptation | 1779 | France | |
3 | Calages, Marie de | *Marie de Calages, the author | Briquet, Marguerite Ursule Fortunée, née Bernier | F | Bio-bibliogr. compilation | 1804 | France | ||
4 | Calages, Marie de | *Marie de Calages, the author | Mongellaz, Fanny | F | Bio-bibliogr. compilation | 1828 | France | ||
5 | Calages, Marie de | *Marie de Calages, the author | Genlis, Stéphanie Félicité de | F | Bio-bibliogr. compilation | 1811 | France | ||
6 | Campan, Jeanne Louise Henriette Genest | *Jeanne Louise Henriette Campan, the author | Mongellaz, Fanny | F | Bio-bibliogr. compilation | 1828 | France | ||
7 | Campan, Jeanne Louise Henriette Genest | *Jeanne Louise Henriette Campan, the author | ~~author male (name below) | M | Bio-bibliogr. compilation | 1890 | France | ||
8 | Campan, Jeanne Louise Henriette Genest | De l'éducation | 1824 | ~~historian of literature (male, name below) | M | (Literary) history | 1921 | France | |
9 | Campan, Jeanne Louise Henriette Genest | Mémoires sur la vie privée de Marie-Antoinette | 1822 | Mongellaz, Fanny | F | Bio-bibliogr. compilation | 1828 | France | |
10 | Candeille, Amélie-Julie | Catherine ou la belle fermiere | 1792 | ~~reader(s) (gender unknown) | U | Production in theatre | 1792 | France | |
11 | Canth, Minna | Sylvi (Sylvi) | 1893 | ~~translator (name unknown) | U | Translation | 1894 | France | |
12 | Caracciolo, Enrichetta | Misteri del chiostro napolitano | 1864 | Estraignes, Baronne Marta d' | F | Translation | 1865 | France | |
13 | Carlowitz, Aloïse de | La Messiade (de Klopstock) | 1853 | ~~translator male (name below) | M | Translation | 1841 | France | |
14 | Carlowitz, Aloïse de | La femme du progrès, ou l'Emancipation | 1838 | ~~author (name unknown) | U | Article in the press | 1838 | France | |
15 | Carlowitz, Aloïse de | *Aloïse de Carlowitz, the author | ~~author male (name below) | M | Bio-bibliogr. compilation | 1843 | France | ||
16 | Carlyle, Jane Welsh | Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle | 1883 | Masson, Elsie | F | Translation | 1910 | France | |
17 | Carraud, Zulma | Contes et historiettes à l'usage des jeunes enfants qui commencent à savoir lire | 1853 | ~~translator (name unknown) | U | Translation | 1878 | France | |
18 | Cartwright, Mrs H. | The platonic marriage | 1786 | Wouters, Cornélie | F | Translation | 1789 | France | |
19 | Cassvan, Sarina | Contes roumains d'écrivains contemporains | 1931 | Noailles, Anna de | F | Preface (allograph) | 1931 | France | |
20 | Caterina da Siena, Santa | *Catherine of Siena, the author | ~~author male (name below) | M | (Literary) history | 1811 | France | ||
21 | Caterina da Siena, Santa | *Catherine of Siena, the author | Mongellaz, Fanny | F | Bio-bibliogr. compilation | 1828 | France | ||
22 | Catherine II, née princesse Sophie-Frédérique-Auguste d'Anhalt-Zerbst | Antidote, ou Examen du mauvais livre superbement imprimé intitulé “Voyage en Sibérie fait par ordre du roi en 1761" | 1770 | ~~translator male (name below) | M | Translation | 1772 | France | |
23 | Catherine II, née princesse Sophie-Frédérique-Auguste d'Anhalt-Zerbst | *Catharina Alexiowna, the author | ~~author (name unknown) | U | Biography | 1797 | France | ||
24 | Catherine II, née princesse Sophie-Frédérique-Auguste d'Anhalt-Zerbst | Skazka o tsarevitche Khlore [Conte du prince Chlore], Saint-Pétersbourg, tipografiïa Akademii naouk. | 1781 | ~~translator male (name below) | M | Translation | 1782 | France | |
25 | Catherine II, née princesse Sophie-Frédérique-Auguste d'Anhalt-Zerbst | O vremia ! [Oh, le temps !], comédie en trois actes, Saint-Pétersbourg, Senatskaia tipografiïa, s.d. | 1780 | ~~translator male (name below) | M | Translation | 1826 | France | |
26 | Cavendish, Georgiana | *Dithyrambe sur l'immortalité de l'âme, suivi du Passage du Saint-Gothard | 1800 | ~~translator male (name below) | M | Translation | 1802 | France | |
27 | Cavendish, Georgiana | The Sylph | 1779 | Polier, Marie-Elisabeth | F | Translation | 1795 | France | |
28 | Cavendish, Georgiana | The Sylph | 1779 | ~~translator male (name below) | M | Translation | 1784 | France | |
29 | Caylus, Marthe-Marguerite, Comtesse de | *Marthe-Marguerite Caylus, the author | ~~author male (name below) | M | Bio-bibliogr. compilation | 1886 | France | ||
30 | Caylus, Marthe-Marguerite, Comtesse de | Mes souvenirs [de la Marquise de Caylus] | 1770 | ~~historian of literature (male, name below) | M | (Literary) history | 1769 | France | |
31 | Caylus, Marthe-Marguerite, Comtesse de | Mes souvenirs [de la Marquise de Caylus] | 1770 | ~~historian of literature (male, name below) | M | (Literary) history | 1921 | France | |
32 | Caylus, Marthe-Marguerite, Comtesse de | Mes souvenirs [de la Marquise de Caylus] | 1770 | ~~author male (name below) | M | Preface (allograph) | 1860 | France | |
33 | Caylus, Marthe-Marguerite, Comtesse de | Mes souvenirs [de la Marquise de Caylus] | 1770 | ~~author male (name below) | M | Preface (allograph) | 1804 | France | |
34 | Caylus, Marthe-Marguerite, Comtesse de | *Marthe-Marguerite Caylus, the author | ~~author male (name below) | M | Bio-bibliogr. compilation | 1769 | France | ||
35 | Caylus, Marthe-Marguerite, Comtesse de | *Marthe-Marguerite Caylus, the author | ~~author male (name below) | M | Bio-bibliogr. compilation | 1921 | France | ||
36 | Caylus, Marthe-Marguerite, Comtesse de | *Marthe-Marguerite Caylus, the author | Briquet, Marguerite Ursule Fortunée, née Bernier | F | Bio-bibliogr. compilation | 1804 | France | ||
37 | Centlivre, Susanna | A bold stroke for a wife | 1718 | ~~translator (name unknown) | U | Translation | 1751 | France | |
38 | Centlivre, Susanna | The Perjur'd Husband; or, the Adventures in Venice | 1700 | ~~historian of literature (male, name below) | M | (Literary) history | France | ||
39 | Centlivre, Susanna | A bold stroke for a wife | 1718 | Riccoboni, Marie-Jeanne | F | Private collection | 1770 | France | |
40 | Centlivre, Susanna | *Centlivre, Susanna, the author | ~~translator (name unknown) | U | Translation | 1784 | France | ||
41 | Centlivre, Susanna | *Centlivre, Susanna, the author | ~~translator (name unknown) | U | Translation | 1751 | France | ||
42 | Champbonin, Anne Paulin, Mme Du Raget de | Histoire de Mlle Datilly par Madame de *** dédiée à Madame la Marquise du Chatelet | 1745 | Graffigny, Françoise de | F | Egodocument | 1745 | France | |
43 | Charles, Elizabeth Rundle | Lapsed, but not lost. A story of Roman Carthage | 1877 | Witt, Henriette de, née Guizot | F | Translation | 1877 | France | |
44 | Charles, Elizabeth Rundle | *The women of Christianity | 1880 | Witt, Henriette de, née Guizot | F | Translation | 1882 | France | |
45 | Charles, Elizabeth Rundle | Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta family | 1863 | Rilliet de Constant, Victorine | F | Translation | 1868 | France | |
46 | Charlton, Elizabeth Emily | *Un frère aîné | 1890 | Dussaud-Roman, Louise | F | Translation | 1896 | France | |
47 | Charlton, Elizabeth Emily | *Digne de son nom, histoire du petit Gus | 1890 | ~~translator (name unknown) | U | Translation | 1894 | France | |
48 | Charlton, Elizabeth Emily | *C'est bien vrai, bien vrai ! Tribulations d'une petite bossue | 1880 | ~~translator (name unknown) | U | Translation | 1883 | France | |
49 | Charlton, Mary | Phedora or the forest of Minski | 1798 | ~~translator male (name below) | M | Translation | 1799 | France | |
50 | Charlton, Mary | Andronica or the fugitive bride | 1790 | ~~translator male (name below) | M | Translation | 1799 | France | |
51 | Charrière, Isabelle de | Lettres de Mistriss Henley, publiées par son amie | 1784 | ~~journalist (name unknown) | M | Article in the press | 1785 | France | |
52 | Charrière, Isabelle de | Lettres écrites de Lausanne | 1785 | ~~journalist (name unknown) | M | Article in the press | 1786 | France | |
53 | Charrière, Isabelle de | Lettres écrites de Lausanne | 1785 | ~~journalist (name unknown) | M | Article in the press | 1786 | France | |
54 | Charrière, Isabelle de | Trois femmes | 1795 | ~~journalist (name unknown) | M | Article in the press | 1799 | France | |
55 | Charrière, Isabelle de | Trois femmes | 1795 | Guizot, Pauline | F | Article in the press | 1809 | France | |
56 | Charrière, Isabelle de | Lettres écrites de Lausanne | 1785 | Guizot, Pauline | F | Article in the press | 1807 | France | |
57 | Charrière, Isabelle de | *Isabelle de Charrière, the author | ~~historian of literature (male, name below) | M | Article in the press | 1891 | France | ||
58 | Charrière, Isabelle de | *Isabelle de Charrière, the author | ~~author male (name below) | M | (Literary) history | 1855 | France | ||
59 | Charrière, Isabelle de | Lettres écrites de Lausanne | 1785 | ~~author male (name below) | M | Egodocument | 1788 | France | |
60 | Charrière, Isabelle de | Lettres Neuchâteloises | 1784 | ~~historian of literature (male, name below) | M | (Literary) history | 1861 | France | |
61 | Charrière, Isabelle de | Lettres Neuchâteloises | 1784 | Staël, Germaine de | F | Egodocument | 1793 | France | |
62 | Charrière, Isabelle de | Lettres trouvées dans des portefeuilles d'émigrés | 1793 | Staël, Germaine de | F | Egodocument | 1793 | France | |
63 | Charrière, Isabelle de | Caliste, ou continuation des lettres écrites de Lausanne | 1787 | ~~historian of literature (male, name below) | M | (Literary) history | 1921 | France | |
64 | Charrière, Isabelle de | *Isabelle de Charrière, the author | ~~historian of literature (male, name below) | M | (Literary) history | 1829 | France | ||
65 | Charrière, Isabelle de | Lettres écrites de Lausanne | 1785 | ~~author male (name below) | M | Reaction to text or author | 1791 | France | |
66 | Charrière, Isabelle de | Lettres de Mistriss Henley, publiées par son amie | 1784 | ~~reader(s) female (name below) | F | Private collection | 1785 | France | |
67 | Charrière, Isabelle de | Lettres écrites de Lausanne | 1785 | ~~journalist (name unknown) | M | Article in the press | 1788 | France | |
68 | Charrière, Isabelle de | *Isabelle de Charrière, the author | ~~historian of literature (male, name below) | M | (Literary) history | 1839 | France | ||
69 | Charrière, Isabelle de | *Isabelle de Charrière, the author | ~~historian of literature (male, name below) | M | (Literary) history | 1890 | France | ||
70 | Charrière, Isabelle de | *Isabelle de Charrière, the author | ~~author male (name below) | M | Egodocument | 1838 | France | ||
71 | Charrière, Isabelle de | Le Noble, conte moral | 1762 | ~~author male (name below) | M | Mention | 1788 | France | |
72 | Charrière, Isabelle de | Lettres écrites de Lausanne | 1785 | ~~historian of literature (male, name below) | M | Egodocument | 1790 | France | |
73 | Charrière, Isabelle de | Justine | 1764 | ~~reader(s) male (name below) | M | Egodocument | 1767 | France | |
74 | Charrière, Isabelle de | Trois femmes | 1795 | ~~author male (name below) | M | Egodocument | 1838 | France | |
75 | Charrière, Isabelle de | Lettres Neuchâteloises | 1784 | ~~author male (name below) | M | Egodocument | 1839 | France | |
76 | Charrière, Isabelle de | *Isabelle de Charrière, the author | Briquet, Marguerite Ursule Fortunée, née Bernier | F | Bio-bibliogr. compilation | 1804 | France | ||
77 | Charrière, Isabelle de | Le Noble, conte moral | 1762 | ~~author male (name below) | M | Mention | 1788 | France | |
78 | Charrière, Isabelle de | Le Noble, conte moral | 1762 | ~~reader(s) (gender unknown) | U | Egodocument | 1767 | France | |
79 | Charrière, Isabelle de | Lettres écrites de Lausanne | 1785 | ~~journalist (name unknown) | M | Article in the press | 1788 | France | |
80 | Charrière, Isabelle de | Lettres écrites de Lausanne | 1785 | ~~author male (name below) | M | Article in the press | 1788 | France | |
81 | Charrière, Isabelle de | *texte concernant la fille d'un roi de France | 1764 | ~~journalist (name unknown) | M | Egodocument | 1764 | France | |
82 | Charrière, Isabelle de | Lettres de Mistriss Henley, publiées par son amie | 1784 | ~~journalist (name unknown) | M | Article in the press | 1786 | France | |
83 | Charrière, Isabelle de | Lettres écrites de Lausanne | 1785 | ~~journalist (name unknown) | M | Article in the press | 1786 | France | |
84 | Charrière, Isabelle de | Lettres Neuchâteloises | 1784 | ~~author male (name below) | M | Reaction to text or author | 1791 | France | |
85 | Charrière, Isabelle de | Lettres écrites de Lausanne | 1785 | Staël, Germaine de | F | Egodocument | 1791 | France | |
86 | Chastenay , Victorine de | Les chevaliers normands en Italie et en Sicile, et Considérations générales sur l'histoire de la chevalerie, et particulièrement sur celle de la chevalerie en France | 1816 | ~~historian of literature (male, name below) | M | (Literary) history | 1921 | France | |
87 | Chastenay , Victorine de | *Victorine de Chastenay, the author | ~~historian of literature (male, name below) | M | (Literary) history | 1816 | France | ||
88 | Châtelet, Gabrielle Emilie du | *Madame du Châtelet, the author | ~~author male (name below) | M | Bio-bibliogr. compilation | 1890 | France | ||
89 | Châtelet, Gabrielle Emilie du | *Madame du Châtelet, the author | ~~author male (name below) | M | Bio-bibliogr. compilation | 1886 | France | ||
90 | Châtelet, Gabrielle Emilie du | Dissertation sur la nature et la propagation du feu | 1737 | Graffigny, Françoise de | F | Egodocument | 1738 | France | |
91 | Châtelet, Gabrielle Emilie du | *Madame du Châtelet, the author | ~~author male (name below) | M | Bio-bibliogr. compilation | 1806 | France | ||
92 | Châtelet, Gabrielle Emilie du | Institutions physiques | 1740 | ~~historian of literature (male, name below) | M | (Literary) history | 1769 | France | |
93 | Châtelet, Gabrielle Emilie du | *Madame du Châtelet, the author | Briquet, Marguerite Ursule Fortunée, née Bernier | F | Bio-bibliogr. compilation | 1804 | France | ||
94 | Châtelet, Gabrielle Emilie du | *Madame du Châtelet, the author | ~~author male (name below) | M | Bio-bibliogr. compilation | 1886 | France | ||
95 | Châtelet, Gabrielle Emilie du | *Madame du Châtelet, the author | ~~author male (name below) | M | Bio-bibliogr. compilation | 1769 | France | ||
96 | Châtelet, Gabrielle Emilie du | *Madame du Châtelet, the author | ~~author male (name below) | M | Bio-bibliogr. compilation | 1921 | France | ||
97 | Chaumont, Françoise Cécile de | L' Heureuse rencontre (Chaumont & Rozet) | 1771 | Briquet, Marguerite Ursule Fortunée, née Bernier | F | (Literary) history | 1804 | France | |
98 | Chaumont, Françoise Cécile de | L'Amour à Tempé | 1773 | Briquet, Marguerite Ursule Fortunée, née Bernier | F | (Literary) history | 1804 | France | |
99 | Chéron, Elisabeth-Sophie | Essai de Psaumes et cantiques mis en vers | 1694 | ~~journalist (name unknown) | M | Article in the press | 1712 | France | |
100 | Child, Lydia Maria Francis | *Publications bienfaisantes de la Banque philantropique. Le livre des jeunes mères | Niboyet, Eugénie | F | Translation | 1838 | France |