Author: Lady Mary Wortley MontaguPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 562
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The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Author: Lady Mary Wortley MontaguPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 562
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The Letters of Lady M. W. Montagu, During the Embassy to Constantinople 1716-18
Author: Lady Mary Wortley MontaguPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 258
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and the Eighteenth-Century Familiar Letter
Author: Cynthia J. LowenthalPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820336939
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
This is is the first critical study of one of the most important women writers of the early eighteenth century, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762), who produced a body of erudite and entertaining correspondence that spanned more than fifty years. Lady Mary's letters illuminate the difficulties encountered by a sensitive, intelligent, and gifted woman writer living through an era of significant cultural change. These letters display the tensions inherent in the competing demands of public and private life, revealing Lady Mary's own discomfort about the problems of authorship and authority in an age that held publication to be an improper activity for respectable women. Through the discourse of supposedly “private” letters, Lady Mary was able to find an avenue for her talents that brought her “public” stature without violating the imperatives of her position as a woman and an aristocrat. Cynthia Lowenthal argues persuasively that Lady Mary's letters, themselves central to the establishment of the familiar letter as an important eighteenthcentury genre, were self-consciously constructed as literary artifacts and crafted as part of a larger female epistolary tradition. Moreover, Lowenthal contends, the works of Lady Mary are essential to the feminist recuperation of women's writing precisely because she provided an aristocratic critique—a voice often ignored—of the class and gender codes of her day.
Letters
Author: Mary Wortley MontaguPublisher: Everyman's Library
ISBN: 0375712860
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 467
Book Description
Immensely learned, self-educated in an era when formal schooling was denied to women, Mary Wortley Montagu was an admired poet, a consistently scandalous doyenne of eighteenth-century London society, and, in a period when letter-writing had been elevated to an art form, one of the greatest letter writers in the English language. Her epistles, meant for both public and private consumption, are the product of a mind distinguished by its adventurousness, its indifference to convention, and its eagerness not only to acquire knowledge but to convey it with unmitigated style and grace. (Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)
The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Author: Lady Mary Wortley MontaguPublisher:
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Category : Women authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M-y W-y M-e
Author: MontaguLady Mary Wortley Montagu
Author: Isobel GrundyPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780198112891
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
This book is the first to look at Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's achievement as a vital figure in the women's literary tradition. Robert Halsband's book on her life, the sixth this century and published in 1956, was the first to apply scholarly techniques to establishing the facts. The inaccurateaccounts given before Halsband testify to Lady Mary's compelling interest as a woman who wrote, travelled, campaigned publicly for medical advance, gossiped, and was involved in high-profile literary quarrels. Knowledge of her life has made considerable gains since Halsband, as understanding of theissues involved in trying to move between the roles of proper lady and woman writer has increased enormously. This life fruitfully exploits the tension between literary history and feminist reading. Isobel Grundy highlights Montagu's adolescent longing for literary fame, her growing understandingof the implications of this for gender and class imperatives, the frustrations and concessions involved in her collaborations with male writers, the punitive responses of society, the gaps at every stage of her life between her ascertainable circumstances and her construction of herself in lettersand other writings. The book situates those writings in relation to her own theorizing and her very wide reading in women's texts as well as men's. Finally, it looks at a range of contemporary and near-contemporary responses.
The Selected Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Author: Lady Mary Wortley MontaguPublisher:
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 330
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The Letters and Works
Author: Mary Wortley MontaguPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 516
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The Turkish Embassy Letters
Author: Lady Mary Wortley MontaguPublisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1554810426
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
In 1716, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s husband Edward Montagu was appointed British ambassador to the Sublime Porte of the Ottoman Empire. Montagu accompanied her husband to Turkey and wrote an extraordinary series of letters that recorded her experiences as a traveller and her impressions of Ottoman culture and society. This Broadview edition includes a broad selection of related historical documents on Turkey, women in the Arab world, Islam, and “Oriental” tales written in Europe.