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Author Grundy, Isobel

Title Lady Mary Wortley Montagu / Isobel Grundy
Published Oxford : Clarendon, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 680 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, genealogical table, maps, portraits
Contents 1. Before 1699: Roots -- 2. 1699-June 1709: Juvenilia -- 3. July 1709-February 1712: Marriage Market -- 4. February-August 1712: Elopement -- 5. August 1712-January 1715: Domesticity -- 6. 1715: High Society -- 7. December 1715-August 1716: Loss of Face -- 8. August 1716-January 1717: Overland -- 9. February-May 1717: Adrianople -- 10. May 1717-July 1718: Constantinople -- 11. July-October 1718: Voyage Home -- 12. October 1718-1720s: Settling Down -- 13. 1720 Onwards: Inoculation -- 14. January 1721-December 1724: Vers de societe -- 15. 1725-March 1728: Some Losses -- 16. 1728: Lady Mar, Pope -- 17. 1729-1732: Past Forty -- 18. 1732-August 1736: As Aunt and Mother -- 19. 1729-June 1735: Pope, Round Two -- 20. March 1736-March 1738: Algarotti -- 21. March 1738-July 1739: Leaving -- 22. July 1739-August 1740: Venice -- 23. August 1740-March 1741: Florence, Rome, Naples -- 24. March 1741-October 1742: Turin and Elsewhere -- 25. May 1742-August 1746: Avignon -- 26. August 1746-February 1750: Gottolengo, Lovere -- 27. March 1750-1753: Lone Philosopher -- 28. 1753-September 1756: Escaping Palazzi -- 29. November 1756-April 1758: Venice and Padua -- 30. May 1758-December 1759: Friends and Foes -- 31. January 1760-December 1761: Inheriting -- 32. 1762: Back in London
Summary This biography of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu examines her achievements as a vital figure in the women's literary tradition. Grundy illuminates Montagu's frustrations and concessions involved in her collaborations with male writers
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Montagu, Mary Wortley, Lady, 1689-1762.
SUBJECT Montagu, Mary Wortley, Lady, 1689-1762 fast
Subject Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
Authors, English -- 18th century -- Biography
Diplomats' spouses -- Great Britain -- Biography
Writing.
Writing
writing (processes)
Writing
Authors, English
Diplomats' spouses
Women and literature
Great Britain
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191674730
0191674737
9780198187653
0198187653