With interest growing in the tradition of women's writing, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) has been transformed from a colorful eccentric to an important writer. This book is the first to take her writing achievement seriously, as well as re-telling a life-story which every newly uncovered detail renders more extraordinary.
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Pp. xxiv+680. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. ?30. As Isobel Grundy states in the concluding ...
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The daughter of Evelyn Pierrepont, earl of Kingston, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was privately educated. In 1712 she eloped with Edward Wortley Montagu, ...
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Letters from the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 1709 to 1762 .... Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762), renowned for her letters from Turkey, ...
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 | Brescia - Page 507The count now went off to Brescia, but he was back in two days with a closed Carriage sent for me by his Mother, who besought me for pity's sake to ...more pages: 501 |
| Padua - Page 556Although approaching seventy, she enjoyed better general health in Padua and Venice than in the Po Valley. Nothing more is heard of either fever or ...more pages: 396 |
| Turin - Page 575More cheerfully, Lady Mary passed on the news that James Stuart Mackenzie had been appointed British Envoy in Turin. ...more pages: 602 |
More | Venice - Page 556Although approaching seventy, she enjoyed better general health in Padua and Venice than in the Po Valley. Nothing more is heard of either fever or ...more pages: 407 |
| Belgrade - Page 157Ibrahim said the vizier would agree to stomach the loss of Belgrade in the cause of peace: Wortley was to get word of this conveyed to Eugene by ...more pages: 134 |
| Genoa - Page 442
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| Florence - Page 416At Florence as at Venice, Montagu conducted a literary life. She kept poems in Italian by a Dr AM Salvini of Florence.9 Having already shown ...more pages: 428 |
| Vienna - Page 127She admired the cooking but derided the fashions, which were carried to even greater excess than in Vienna, rendering women invisible between their ...more pages: 83 |
| Beska - Page 132At the meeting place, Beska, the Bassa provided a second private army, half as big again, though he had promised an exact equivalent. ... |
| Hanover - Page 83including first and foremost the new arrivals from Hanover. 'The new Court with all their Train was arriv'd before I left the Country', ...more pages: 468 |
| Paris - Page 379By then Lady Mary assumed that Algarotti had reached Paris: to her complaints of his not writing he replied complaining that he did not hear from her. ...more pages: 235 |
| Peterborough - Page 314the voters of Peterborough) again attended the opera in Lincoln's Inn Fields; Phil/Melanthus was there too, in another box. ...more pages: 381 |
| London - Page 70In the end she did not leave for London until the end of February, having managed for nearly two months without most of her basic household ...more pages: 499 |
| York - Page 70Expecting to be only a month or so in London, she left her son in York with a Mrs Cromwell. But, just as their stay at Middlethorpe had lengthened, ...more pages: 21 |
| Naples - Page 53But solitude at Naples might combine the best of both worlds. If we marry, our happynesse must consist in loveing one Another. ...more pages: 379 |
| Dover - Page 396for a chaise at Calais, having shopped around very carefully for a cheaper one before following the advice on Calais chaises given her at Dover. ...more pages: 395 |
| Rome - Page 429
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| Chatelet - Page 356He had made a great hit with Voltaire and his brilliant life partner, the marquise du Chatelet. He was working on an Italian popularization of Sir ...more pages: 357 |
| Halifax - Page 18She refers in verse to poems by Halifax and Garth, inspired by Lady Sunderland and Lady Louisa Lennox. A handwriting analysis at this age calls her ... |
| Cambridge - Page 22Her uncle had shown sound political as well as literary judgment in his choice of protege.28 The spring that brother William went up to Cambridge, ... |
| Toulouse - Page 473still at Toulouse, he told a friend that her 'Companion hunting' had met with success. He told others that he was 'now determined to go to Italy ...more pages: 470 |
| Nottingham - Page 22a Belvoir Castle nearby.26 This letter was sent to her at Holme Pierrepont: the ancient family seat, in the meadows just south of Nottingham, ...more pages: 21 |
| Almeria - Page 69used to heap on 'fond Expressions' between ladies, yet confesses with amazement that she now sees Almeria 'rather with a Lovers Eye then with a ...more pages: 70 |
| Sutton - Page 2231 One of Mar's links to Walpole was Sutton, who had replaced EWM in Turkey. In 1722 Mar used his wife as cover for visits from Col. ...more pages: 158 |
| Sunderland - Page 180Her friend Craggs was (on Addison's resignation) helping Sunderland and Stanhope to run the government; her friend Walpole was cultivating the anti- ...more pages: 156 |
| Prague - Page 127the Grand Tour he had seen no road so dangerous as this.26 Lady Mary addressed to sister Mar her public, retrospective comment on Prague and Dresden. ... |
| Amsterdam - Page 612Hoping every day for a thaw, she never got round to travelling to Amsterdam. By Christmas the weather had gone grey and dull, but no longer freezing; ... |
| Milan - Page 371At this point his Memoirs conclude.50 In December, as Algarotti's Newtonianismo saw the light at Milan, the journal Common Sense printed a piece about ...more pages: 359 |
| Leicester - Page 44At the last moment the coachman changed his mind, and she found herself at Leicester, only a few miles from her friend but too late to arrange a ...more pages: 70 |
| Leipzig - Page 199For instance, the Embassy Letter to Lady Mar dated 21 Nov. from Leipzig clearly incorporates passages written at Dresden, of which MWM says 'here' and ...more pages: 127 |
| Berlin - Page 602 |
| Huntingdon - Page 76to Middlethorpe partly to sound out the potential of York as a parliamentary seat for Wortley, whose father had decided to take over Huntingdon. ...more pages: 61 |
| Stafford - Page 247Since she now named Skerrett and Stafford as part of her sociability, when she formerly called them part of her solitude, she may have been recasting ... |
| Windsor - Page 285court at Windsor, trying to find out what they wanted from his brother, and enlisting the aid of Lady Mary's former friend Charlotte Clayton.60 Mar ... |
| Villany - Page 384'Nothing is Sacred now but Villany.'21 When Pope reissued the poem in the latest volume of his Works a year later, he rendered visible another ... |
| Marmara - Page 152Beside the sea of Marmara, they admired sights including two more creations of the architect Selim: a famous multiple-span bridge and an imperial ... |
| Nimes - Page 462The duchesse de Crillon persuaded her to join a party of ladies on a foray to Nimes for a lavish entertainment which Freemasons of that town were ...more pages: 466 |
| Edirne - Page 139travellers were now near their goal: not Constantinople but Adrianople (now Edirne), a hundred miles short of it, a smaller city away from the coast. ... |
| Hellevoetsluis - Page 118forward that she had the longboat put out to set them ashore at Hellevoetsluis, where they hired 'Voitures' to get to Rotterdam faster than by water. ... |
| Harwich - Page 468This patriotic intention was foiled 'by an Overturn on the Road from Harwich', which left him too badly 'lamed' to travel, even by coach.33 ... |
| Islington - Page 306In the London area she visited Lord Hay's Kenwood House, with Lady Oxford, and the spa at Islington, with young Mary. ... |
| Hertford - Page 213of inoculating by stuffing infected matter up her nostrils.38 One of the released Newgate guinea-pigs was sent to Maitland 's Hertford practice, ... |
| Plovdiv - Page 139Four days' travel from Sofia brought them to Philippopoli (later Plovdiv), a largely Greek city which had once received an epistle from St Paul. ... |
| Brussels - Page 470 |
| Edinburgh - Page 367At issue was the punishment to be meted out for the Porteous riots of the year before, when soldiers had fired into a demonstrating crowd in Edinburgh ... |
| Nijmegen - Page 120Nevertheless Lady Mary claims that they hoped to reach Cologne in two days from Nijmegen, a distance of at least a hundred miles, with a single set of ... |
| Cologne - Page 120Nevertheless Lady Mary claims that they hoped to reach Cologne in two days from Nijmegen, a distance of at least a hundred miles, with a single set of ... |
| Tunis - Page 170In Tunis, which was built of brilliant white stone and entirely without trees or gardens, Lady Mary found the heat and glare so 'excessive' that she ... |
| Barnet - Page 237Lady Mar was then unexpectedly delayed; Griselda Murray went down with a dangerous fever at her parents' country house at Barnet, and her friend spent ... |
| Toulon - Page 172Wortley would rather have pressed on to Toulon, to avoid the passage of the Alps. But the moderate gale which had brought them to harbour proved short ... |
| Gibraltar - Page 258When the ship reached Gibraltar the captain spoke to the Admiral of the Mediterranean Fleet. The admiral had seen newspaper advertisements for the boy ... |
| Lisbon - Page 543From the Voyage to Lisbon she picked out the single episode of a kitten rescued at sea: this was because she herself had just rescued a starving ... |
| Boston - Page 212Inoculation was launched in Boston, but it failed to take. The city fathers outlawed it, in a ruling backed by calculated untruths about the numbers ... |
| Wandsworth - Page 265After a spell in retirement at Wandsworth, south of London, brushing up his English, he began making intellectual and social contacts. ... |
| Oxford - Page 255Curling says this was the fourth time he had run away, that he took to Oxford two books MWM had brought from Turkey, and lived with a woman of 20 ... |
| Dublin - Page 622 |
| Innsbruck - Page 610Then the River Inn led them downhill to Innsbruck, where a Hungarian passport had to be procured from surly officers of Maria Theresa. ... |
| Nuremberg - Page 121By the time she reached Nuremberg on the far side of Germany, another couple of hundred miles up the Rhine, she had found a pattern for her mixed ... |
| Istanbul - Page 102Timoni had seen no ill effects of inoculation, despite many false rumours. See Klebs 1913: 71; Grundy 1994£: 15. Constantinople is now Istanbul. |
| Vevey - Page 447A later, probably apocryphal story had her staying a night at Vevey (the other end of Lake Geneva, quite out of her way); her son stayed just across ... |
| Athens - Page 402and he intended, when his father should die and the throne should be his, to amass a circle of intellectual giants, a new Athens of the Enlightenment. ... |
| Kensington - Page 363Lady Mary attended court (at Kensington) shortly before the skimpy birthday celebration, chiefly in order to see and again to question Hervey.27 Later ... |
| Oldham - Page 94She was not their patron, as her uncle had been to Oldham; she was not, like Lady Winchilsea, a member of an older generation to be treated with ... |
| Charlotte - Page 421in Florence and to father the result on her host Lord Pomfret; that she had made a pass at a young suitor of Lady Pomfret's daughter Charlotte. ... |
| Aix - Page 489 |
| Salisbury - Page 220(then aged five).66 This at least suggests that Lady Mary visited Salisbury (so handy to West Dean) as a publicist, with young Mary as usual her prime ... |
| Algiers - Page 372without mercy grind the Faces of the poor . . . whose Familys suffer more real misery in a free Country than the slaves in Jamaica or Algiers. ... |
| Quebec - Page 590On the news of James Wolfe 's glorious death at Quebec, she thought his mother and especially his fiancee were to be pitied, but not the hero himself. ... |
| Regensburg - Page 121At Regensburg (which the English called Ratisbon) they joined the Danube. This town, seat of the Holy Roman Empire, where the Imperial Diet convened, ... |
| Albi - Page 471Lady Mary, too, seems to have been attracted.41 Caldwell told Montesquieu that she was considering Nerac and also Albi, on the other side of Toulouse. ... |
| Jerusalem - Page 165He reopened the idea of meeting her in Italy — like a troubadour who followed a countess to Jerusalem, and expired well satisfied with a glimpse of ... |
| Cairo - Page 155The new grand vizier was deposed, replaced by the basha of Cairo; behind the scenes Ibrahim began consolidating a power base.9 Wortley's status in ... |
| Augusta - Page 496 |
| Valence - Page 45238 She accepted her brief to interview him, however, and proposed to do it at Valence, just down the Saone from Lyons, which she hoped would be free ... |
| Bologna - Page 566 |
| Santa Maria - Page 557Chiara Michiel's sister, Maria Eleonora Bragadin, was a nun in the Murano convent of Santa Maria degli Angeli; so was 'MM', a nun who partnered ... |
| Frankfurt - Page 610the Bavarian roads, which were too narrow to take a standard carriage — she pressed on via Wiirtzburg to Frankfurt, where there was a French garrison. ... |
| Bristol - Page 615 |
| Osijek - Page 131the vast quantity of wolves that herd in them', besides exceptionally deep snow, they reached Esseg or Osijek late at night on 4 February /24 January. ... |
| Cartagena - Page 444 |
| Greenwich - Page 291In 1733 an unsatisfactory tenant had to be pursued to Greenwich for an 'ejectment' to be served. Lawyers shuttled around London between Lady Mar's ... |
| Marseilles - Page 174objects of Apothecarys' viols and Bottles', she read and answered a large batch of letters which had been caught at Marseilles and rerouted to Lyons. ... |
| Rimini - Page 173in disgrace 'for some small overtures he presum'd to make to a Maid of Honnour'; the other presented them at court (in its summer quarters at Rimini). ... |
| Petrovaradin - Page 130They left on 27/16 January, headed for Peterwardein or Petrovaradin (scene of Eugene's decisive victory six months before), and for Turkish-held ... |
| Hammersmith - Page 455Edward, finding cousin Montagu disappointingly occupied with his own marriage, retired to Hammersmith 'for the air' (and also to avoid re-arrest). ... |
| Madrid - Page 465Early that month Chiara Michiel travelled home from Madrid to Venice. 24 CL ii. 333; iii. 265. Her husband, the elderly Lord Carteret, ... |
| Cardiff - Page 594 |
| Ottawa - Page 66217, 536; Lives of Cleopatra and Ottawa 536 n. 8; Remarks on Clarissa 537; Volume the Last 535536 Finch, Anne (Kingsmill) (1661-1720), ... |
| Orlando - Page 167(Was she, like Woolf 's Orlando, protected by an awning?) The voyage was a high point of her travels. She was eager to gain and sorry to part with her ...more pages: 154 |
| Feilding - Page 182In and around the Piazza in 1720 lived the politicians George Bubb Dodington and James Craggs, Lady Mary's uncle Feilding, a relation of her friend ... |
| Lyttelton - Page 529She had talked court politics with Lyttelton, one of the new generation, just before she left England. Her surviving 'Account of the Court of George ...more pages: 309 |
| Doctor Mora - Page 550 |
| Champaign - Page 337 |
| Astrea - Page 32At St Ellen's Well (now St Helen's, Barnsley), it was ornamented with busts of goddesses, including Diana and Astrea (Hunter 1831: ii. ... |
| Austin, Tex - Page 655Wise (Austin, Tex.). WYNNE, GIUSTINIANA (17850), Moral and Sentimental Essays on Various Subjects. ( 1 78 5^) , Pieces morales et sentimentales. ... |
| Lexington, Ky - Page 651.Joint-Stock Companies (Lexington, Ky.). SCUDERY, MADELEINE DE (1690), Artamenes; or, The Grand Cyrus, trans. SCULL, ANDREW T. ... |
References to this bookFrom Google ScholarLESLIE MICHAEL MARTYN ROBARTS - 2008 Joanna de Groot - 2006 - Gender & History Marilyn Morris - 2006 - SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 Popular passages... tis a sort of duty to be rich that it may be in one's power to do good — riches being another word for power, towards the obtaining of which the first necessary qualification is impudence, and (as Demosthenes said of pronunciation in oratory) the second is impudence, and the third still impudence. No modest man ever did or ever will make his fortune. Page 78 It was said of Socrates, that he brought Philosophy down from Heaven to inhabit among Men ; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools and Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-tables, and in Coffee-houses. Page 357 At length, by so much importunity pressed, Take, C — , at once the inside of my breast; This stupid indiff 'rence so often you blame, Is not owing to nature, to fear, or to shame; I am not as cold as a virgin in lead, Nor... Page 250 I am not now arguing for an equality of the two sexes. I do not doubt God and nature have thrown us into an inferior rank; we are a lower part of the creation, we owe obedience and submission to the superior sex, and any woman who suffers her vanity and folly to deny this, rebels against the law of the Creator, and indisputable order of nature... Page 38 One day that she wore them at a visit at old Marlbro's, as soon as she was gone, the Duchess said to Lady Mary Wortley, ' How can that woman have the impudence to go about in that bribe ? ' — Page 263 ... Upon the whole, I can't think these people unhappy. The greatest happiness, next to living as they would have done, was to die as they did. The greatest honour people of this low degree could have was to be remembered on a little monument ; unless you will give them another, — that of being honoured with a tear from the finest eyes in the world. Page 178 Queen, who perhaps they remember as long as they live, return to England excellent judges of men and manners. I find the spirit of patriotism so strong in me every time I see them, that I look on them as the greatest blockheads in nature; and, to say truth, the compound of booby and petit maitre makes up a very odd sort of animal. Page 407 Griffith, his intended wife, lawfully to be begotten, severally, successively, and in remainder, one after another, as they, and every of them, shall be in seniority of age and priority of birth... Page 252 They never fail giving you an account of the women, whom, 'tis certain, they never saw, and talking very wisely of the genius of the men, into whose company they are never admitted ; and very often describe mosques, which they dare not even peep into. Page 201 It is the slaver kills, and not the bite. A fool quite angry is quite innocent: Alas! 'tis ten times worse when they repent. One dedicates in high heroic prose... Page 349 LessContents | 1 | | | | | 30 | | | | | 45 | | | | | 99 | | | | | 117 | | | | | 134 | | | | | 152 | | | | | 167 | | | |
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