Poetry Books by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published Date: 1965
Categories: Authors, English
A scholarly edition of letters by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.
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Published Date: 2008-06
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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published Date: 1997
Categories: History
Whether describing the Turkish baths in Sofia or the London social scene, negotiating her marriage settlement or declaring her passion for a young Italian, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) wrote some of the liveliest letters in the English language. Ranging over everything from gossip to politics, science to literature, they reveal very different aspects of her personality to her husband, sister and female circle, to her beloved daughter and her errant son. The famous Embassy Letters from Constantinople were designed for publication, yet most are vividly personal. Several letters in this volume have never before appeared in print (one full of exuberant chamber-pot humour and another mocking men as 'vile inconstant toads'). In this superb selection, Isobel Grundy has included examples from every significant correspondence so as to do full justice 'to Montagu the writer, thinker and feminist, and to Lady Mary the friend and family member, the idealistic girl and sardonic old woman'.
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Published Date: 1993
Categories: Literary Collections
Despite being an aristocrat and a woman, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) made herself a writer. Hard-hitting, eloquent, and often funny, this is a revised edition of her non-epistolary writings.
Publisher: New Amsterdam Books
Published Date: 1988
Categories: History
."..This new selection of her letters has charming pictures and notes, and proves again that for style, candor, narrative sense and reporter's eye she deserved the praise the first edition received from Smollet, Dr. Johnson and Voltaire..."--Jane O'Reilly, New York Times Book Review
