Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Reception | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | Pope
attacked LMWM
's husband
's business practices in his Epistle to Lord Bathurst. Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon. 333 |
Reception | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | |
Reception | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | |
Literary responses | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | |
Literary responses | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | Pope
's An Epistle to a Lady. Of the Characters of Women delineated a controlled and submissive female ideal (and again attacked LMWM
). Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon. 351 |
Publishing | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | Verses Address'd to the Imitator of Horace, a satiric attack on and riposte to Pope
which was probably composed by LMWM
and Lord Hervey
, appeared in two separate, anonymous, folio editions. Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. Essays and Poems and Simplicity, A Comedy. Editors Halsband, Robert and Isobel Grundy, Oxford University Press. 265 |
Friends, Associates | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | At this time LMWM
met and established friendships with writers, artists, and people of learning: Pope
, Gay
, Charles Jervas
, and the Venetian philosophe Antonio Conti
. |
Occupation | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | LMWM
acted as patron to a number of writers (all male so far as is known), most notably Richard Savage
and Henry Fielding
, but also Edward Young
and Samuel Boyse
. Books to which... |
Other Life Event | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | From the late 1720s onwards, Lady Mary's life was punctuated by the regular appearance of new attacks by Alexander Pope
in his poems: sometimes unmistakable, sometimes so concealed that probably only their immediate circles would... |
Textual Production | Mary Seymour Montague | It is likely though not absolutely certain that the author was really female. Her pseudonym suggests Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
(who had died nine years earlier, and whom this poem praises as the only woman... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Seymour Montague | The title and structure of the poem suggest Pope
's Essay on Man, 1733-4. MSM
echoes Pope's lines repeatedly, turning their meaning to reflect her own different emphases. Where Pope sets out to vindicate... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Moody | Personal matters mingle with others of public or topical interest, as EM
addresses Joseph Priestley
on the inter-relation of matter and spirit, Marie Antoinette
on her sufferings before her execution, and Dr Thomas Huet
on... |
Friends, Associates | Grisell Murray | At almost every stage of GM
's life, her family had the habit of spending part of their time at their London house, where she evidently moved in literary as well as fashionable circles. She... |
Textual Production | Judith Sargent Murray | The future JSM
wrote a history (probably fiction) when she was nine, which years later she disparaged as an imbecile effusion. Skemp, Sheila L. Judith Sargent Murray. A Brief Biography with Documents. Bedford Books. 95 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Judith Sargent Murray | In the essay as printed, she begins by asking whether nature can really have designed the two human sexes so unequally as is generally believed. Even the faults of which women stand accused—following fashion, inventing... |
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