Context

Context of Prefaces to fiction: : Georges de Scudéry, Preface to Ibrahim (1674) Mary De la Riviere Manley, Preface to The secret history of Queen Zarah (1705) Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, marquis d'Argens, The Jewish spy (1744), letter 35. William Warburton, Preface to volumes III and IV (1748) of Richardson's Clarissa. Samuel Derrick, Preface to d'Argens's Memoirs of the Count Du Beauval (1754)