ELIZABETH CRAVEN AND HER WORLD

 I am grateful to an Internet translation function for translating this review of Sophie de Tott: Artist in a Time of Revolution . TÓTH FERENC Sophie de Tott: Artist in a Time of Revolution. toth.ferenc@abtk.hu ORCID: 0000­0003­2264­466X Julia GASPER. Sophie de Tott: Artist in a Time of Revolution. London: Lulu.com, 2020. 208. [[ For a long time, Sophie de Tott's name was unknown even to those interested in the history of art and literature of the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. Many of her paintings  are famous  despite her portraits of people, she is a fine artist  one of the most colorful personalities and witnesses of  her era . Her father, the famous François Baron de Tott (1733– 1793) was a French diplomat of Hungarian origin,  who was employed  in the territory of the Ottoman Empire for a long time . In particular  during  the 1768–1774 Russian–  Turkish war he successfully  defended the Ottoman capital against the threatening Russian  fleet. Later he also wrote memoir

    It is very good news that there is now a digital version of Sophie de Tott's novel Pauline de Vergies, which was first published in Paris in 1799. Since then, there have been no other editions so far as is known.    It has been digitized and placed on their website by the library of the University of Göttingen:- https://gdz.sub.uni- goettingen.de/id/PPN73354990X? tify=%7B%22pages%22%3A%5B7%5D% 2C%22pan%22%3A%7B%22x%22%3A0. 524%2C%22y%22%3A0.745%7D%2C% 22view%22%3A%22info%22%2C% 22zoom%22%3A0.38%7    All three volumes of this rare and undeservedly neglected novel are now available for the general reader. This is an honour this remarkable woman, who was a painter, writer, musician and secret agent, well deserves.