Title: There are no letters like yours
Subtitle: the correspondence of Isabelle de Charrière and Constant d'Hermenches
First published: 2000
Description: "Isabelle de Charriere (1740-1805) is best known for four of her novels: Lettres neuchateloises, Lettres de Mistriss Henley, Lettres ecrites de Lausanne, and Caliste. These finely drawn representations of provincial courtship, marriage, and domestic life have been called the closest thing in French to the novels of Jane Austen.".

"A daughter of a distinguished Dutch noble family, she was known in her youth as Belle de Zuylen. At the age of twenty she began a clandestine correspondence with a middle-aged Swiss colonel stationed in Holland. David-Louis, Baron de Constant d'Hermenches, was a friend of Voltaire, an accomplished musician, an amateur writer, and a ladies' man. Their correspondence was one of the finest in a great age of letter writing. It lasted fifteen years, and nearly all of it is extant.".

"Although the two rarely saw each other, their epistolary friendship became one of great depth and scope. Their correspondence touches on a wide range of subjects; James Boswell's courtship of Isabelle, her opinions of English high society, the new smallpox inoculation, and visits by royalty. It includes firsthand accounts of the French conquest of Corsica and of Voltaire's social activism.

Readers acquainted with Charriere's novels will see in these letters the same finely observed detail, epistolary style, and moral and intellectual awareness."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Authors, Swiss, Correspondence, Swiss Authors, Novels, other prose & writers: 16th to 18th centuries, Other prose: 16th to 18th centuries, Women, c 1700 to c 1800, Biography & Autobiography, Women Authors, French Prose, Women In Literature, Family/Interpersonal Memoir, Biography / Autobiography, French, Biography/Autobiography, Charriáere, Isabelle de,, Literary Criticism & Collections / General, 1722-1785, European - French, Literary, 1740-1805, 18th century, Constant de Rebecque, David-Louis-Constant de,
People: David-Louis-Constant de Constant de Rebecque (1722-1785), Isabelle de Charrière (1740-1805)
Time periods: 18th century
LC classification: PQ1963.C55 Z484 2000