Juana (Les Maranas) (1789).

The heroine is forced to "stab her husband to death to save her honour" and "marry a French officer in order to save her 'honour'. She finds herself stuck with a spineless mediocrity, humiliated by her own superiority, her acts of kindness go unrewarded, her little acts of revenge unnoticed. (Robb, 212-13)

The action is interspersed with heavy didactic content...beware! Similar to the short story "The Recruit" this story "records a telepathic sympathy existing between a mother and her daughter." Hunt's synopsis provides a little bit more detail:

The mother, La Marana, last in a long line of Italian courtesans, senses the danger to which her daughter Juana, far away in Tarragona, is exposed by the advances of a would-be seducer, and hastens to her rescue-- but too late. It is also a story of vicarious expiation, that perrenial theme of the illuminists: the mother wishes her daughter to live purely and thereby atone for the sins of her forebears. Juana does so as the wife of a stupid, coarse-fibred Frenchman, Pierre-Francois Diard, whose sole claim to to her gratitude is that he takes her over from her seducer...For the sake of the children she tries to further him in his career as a Civil Servant. But he fails and takes to speculation and gambling...He ends up as a murderer, after which Juana shoots him and passes it off as a suicide, to save her children from disgrace. (Hunt, 76-77)

(Short, Les Maranas, juana10.txt)