BIB_ID
218342
Accession number
MA 5113
Creator
Leprince de Beaumont, Jeanne-Marie, 1711-1780.
Display Date
undated.
Credit line
Purchased for The Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection as the gift of the Heineman Foundation, 2002.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 21.9 cm
Notes
Signed "De Beaumont."
Written in a strikingly uniform hand.
Written in a strikingly uniform hand.
Provenance
From the Morrison collection, second series, vol. 1, p. 179-180.
Summary
Responding to a confession made by her correspondent and describing the circumstances of her own life and her spiritual awakening: she left the convent to marry Grimod de Beaumont; the unhappy marriage was annulled; she moved to London and became a governess, leaving her own daughter in a nunnery; she then went on to write an anthology and moralistic short stories for her charges.
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