Beccary, Madame (fl. 18th c.)
Beccary, Madame (fl. 18th c.)
French novelist. Flourished between 1761 and 1778.
Wrote 4 novels as supposed translations from the English: Lettres de Milady Bedfort (1769), Mémoires de Lucie d'Olbery (1770), Mémoires de Fanny Spingler (1781) and Milord d'Ambi (1778).
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