Letters to Richard Gifford, 1756-1772 and undated.

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Letters to Richard Gifford, 1756-1772 and undated.

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Includes twenty-four letters from Brooke to Gifford concerning financial affairs, their writings, their children, acquaintances, songs by Gifford, and the creation of the comic opera Rosina by Brooke. Also includes three letters from Gifford to Brooke. Includes eleven songs in French and English, and songs for the comic opera Rosina.

1 v. (.16 linear ft.)

eng,

fre,

Houghton Library

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Gifford, Richard, 1725-1807

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Brooke, Frances, 1724?-1789

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Frances Brooke (b. January 12, 1724, Lincolnshire, England–d. January 23, 1789, Sleaford, England) was English novelist, essayist, playwright and translator. By the late 1740s, she had moved to London, where she embarked on her career as a poet and playwright. Under the pseudonym of Mary Singleton, Spinster, she edited thirty-seven issues of her own weekly periodical, Old Maid (1755–56). She wrote her first novel, The History of Lady Julia Mandeville, in 1763....