The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Paperback / softback
by Mary Wortley Montagu
Edited by James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe, William Moy Thomas
Part of the Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Europe series
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Self-taught in her father's library, the writer, satirist and poet Lady Mary Wortley Montagu had an inexhaustible appetite for travel and society.
This third edition of her Letters and Works (1866) offers insight into the ambitions and frustrations of one of the most unconventional women of the eighteenth century.
In addition to remarks on the follies and diversions of London, Volume 1 provides acute and often acerbic observations of the sights and people she encountered on her travels across Holland, France, Germany, Austria and Turkey.
Letters to her family, to Alexander Pope, and to her sister the Countess of Mar are enhanced by an engraved portrait of Lady Mary in her famous Turkish-inspired dress, and an introductory memoir of her life; all of which ensures the enduring appeal of this entertaining collection of correspondence.
For more information on this author, see http://orlando.cambridge.org/public/svPeople?person_id=montma
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- Publication Date:19/05/2011
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- Pages:544 pages, 3 Plates, black and white
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- Publication Date:19/05/2011
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- ISBN:9781108073158