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English, French
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♒ Aquarius
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鸡 Rooster
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English < Latin (clāra)
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Clara Reeve: English writer, novelist, translator (1729-1807).
Born in Ipswich (died at age 78).
Biography
Clara Reeve was an English novelist best known for the Gothic novel The Old English Baron (1778). She also wrote an innovative history of prose fiction, The Progress of Romance (1785). Her first work was a translation from Latin, at the time a language unusual for a woman to learn. She was a near-contemporary of the bluestockings ladies of Elizabeth Montague's circle.
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Clara Reeve was born in Ipswich.
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