Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Editor Halsband, Robert, Clarendon Press, 1965–1967, 3 vols.
3: 173
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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Standard Name: Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley
Birth Name: Mary Pierrepont
Styled: Lady Mary Pierrepont
Nickname: Flavia
Nickname: Sappho
Married Name: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Indexed Name: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Pseudonym: Strephon
Pseudonym: Clarinda
Pseudonym: A Turkey Merchant
LMWM
, eighteenth-century woman of letters, identified herself as a writer, a sister of the quill
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Editor Halsband, Robert, Clarendon Press, 1965–1967, 3 vols.
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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Ann Thicknesse | Philip Thicknesse was a somewhat shady character, one of the greatest self-publicists of the eighteenth century. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Philip Thicknesse |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Sarah Scott | Lady Barbara was a daughter of the rake and gambler George Montagu, Earl of Halifax
(and therefore a cousin of SS
's brother-in-law Edward Montagu and of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
's husband). On Halifax's... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Burnet | This marriage gave EB
a family of five stepchildren (bequeathed to her care by their own mother when she was close to death). They were three boys (all of whom went on to careers ranking... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Seymour Countess of Hertford | Lord Hertford (whose titles after his mother's death included Baron de Percy) was then a well-known rake whose lifestyle included daily drinking bouts with cronies until late at night. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
depicted... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Louisa Stuart | It gave LLS
some trouble as a child that her grandmother was Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
: I am sure I heartily hated her name. Whatever I wanted to learn, everybody was up in arms... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Eleanor Bowes Countess of Strathmore | Her mother, born Mary Gilbert
, from a gentry family in Hertfordshire, was her father's second wife, married more than twenty years after the death of his first. (That first wife, the beautiful, scholarly, fourteen-year-old... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Amelia Opie | AO
accepted a proposal of marriage from a nobleman, Lord Herbert Stuart
; but she later broke off the engagement. Stuart, the second son of the fourth Earl (later the first Marquess) of Bute, was... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | W. H. Auden | Nicholas Jenkins
of Stanford University
formerly maintained on his website at http://www.stanford.edu/~njenkins/ a section called W. H. Auden. Family Ghosts, designed to show how Auden's family, despite his claims to ordinariness, sprang from a... |
| 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... |
| Friends, Associates | Judith Cowper Madan | The poems that Judith Cowper wrote as an unmarried young woman suggest that she moved easily both in court and in literary circles. She probably met the poet Alexander Pope
in Jervas
's studio. Pope... |
| Friends, Associates | William Congreve | As a young man Congreve formed a friendship with the older and distinguished Dryden
. He later belonged to the Whig Kit-Cat Club
, and counted most of its members among his friends, while remaining... |
| Friends, Associates | Alexander Pope | Pope's relationships with women, particularly women who wrote, tended to be complicated and turbulent. They have been ably studied by scholar Valerie Rumbold
. Contrary to rumour, he apparently liked and respected Anne Finch
... |
| Friends, Associates | Winifred Maxwell Countess of Nithsdale | WMCN
's early and close relationship with her sister-in-law Mary, Countess of Traquair
, née Maxwell, suffered vicissitudes over the years through her poverty and her husband's shameless requests for money. In 1718 the Traquairs... |
| Friends, Associates | Joseph Addison | JA
's time at Charterhouse began, and his time at Oxford confirmed, his friendship with Richard Steele
, with whom his name was to become inextricably linked as a result of their shared periodical ventures... |
| Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Margravine of Anspach | EMA
continued to live a crowded social life despite the circles where she was not received. She corresponded with Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe
, Anspach, Elizabeth, Margravine of. “Introduction”. The Beautiful Lady Craven, edited by Lewis Saul Benjamin and Alexander Meyrick Broadley, Bodley Head, 1914, p. i - cxxxviii. cvii |
Timeline
18 March 1748: Robert Dodsley first offered for sale his...
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18 March 1748
Robert Dodsley
first offered for sale his influential Collection of Poems by Several Hands.
Suarez, Michael F., and Robert Dodsley, editors. “The Formation, Transmission, and Reception of Robert Dodsleys Collection of Poems by Several HandsA Collection of Poems by Several Hands, Routledge/Thoemmes, 1997, pp. 1-118.
6, 14, 25ff, 47, 67
1750: The progressive Pope Benedict XIV appointed...
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1750
The progressive Pope Benedict XIV
appointed a woman, Maria Gaetana Agnesi
(1718-99), as professor of mathematics at the University of Bologna
.
“The Catholic Encyclopedia”. New Advent.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Babbage
1752: A severe epidemic of smallpox resulted in...
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1752
A severe epidemic of smallpox resulted in 3,500 deaths in London, more than seventeen per cent of all recorded deaths this year.
Shuttleton, David. Smallpox and the Literary Imagination, 1660—1820. Cambridge University Press, 2007.
106
1754: The Royal College of Physicians made public...
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1754
The Royal College of Physicians
made public their official approval of inoculation for smallpox, as introduced to England by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
thirty-three years before.
Hopper, Karine. “Doctors, Ministers, and Women Novelists: The Effect of Print on the Inoculation Debate in the later Eighteenth Century”. Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (CSECS) Conference, Quebec City, QC, 24 Oct. 2002.
By 22 May 1755: George Colman and Bonnell Thornton edited...
Women writers item
By 22 May 1755
George Colman
and Bonnell Thornton
edited and published an anthology entitled Poems by Eminent Ladies.
Griffiths, Ralph, 1720 - 1803, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.
12: 512
Eger, Elizabeth. “Fashioning a Female Canon: Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and the Politics of the Anthology”. Women’s Poetry in the Enlightenment, The Making of a Canon 1730-1820, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, St Martin’s Press, 1998, pp. 201-15.
210
Guest, Harriet. Small Change: Women, Learning, Patriotism, 1750-1810. University of Chicago Press, 2000.
86-7
Lavoie, Chantel Michelle. Poems by Eminent Ladies: A Study of an Eighteenth-Century Anthology. University of Toronto, 1999.
286-7
15 January 1759: The British Museum (including what had formerly...
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15 January 1759
The British Museum
(including what had formerly been known as the King's Library
), established six years earlier, was first opened to the public.
Gray, Thomas, and Herbert Willmarth Starr. Correspondence. Editors Toynbee, Paget and Leonard Whibley, Clarendon Press, 1971, 3 vols.
2: 620 and n14
13 September 1759: A British party under James Wolfe climbed...
National or international item
13 September 1759
A British party under James Wolfe
climbed the Heights of Abraham at Quebec and beat the French in battle there.
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Editor Wharncliffe, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, first Baron, Richard Bentley, 1836, 3 vols.
3: 191
Newman, Gerald, editor. Britain in the Hanoverian Age, 1714-1837: An Encyclopedia. Garland, 1997.
778
12 February 1767-5 June 1769: Hugh Kelly issued his periodical The Babler,...
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12 February 1767-5 June 1769
Hugh Kelly
issued his periodical The Babler, opening with the usual bow towards the Tatler and Spectator.
Kelly, Hugh. The Babler. Harrison, 1786, http://U of A Special Collections.
April 1768: The first volume of The New Foundling Hospital...
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April 1768
The first volume of The New Foundling Hospital for Wit was published: an influential poetry anthology linked to the political opposition.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
25 (1768): 314
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
January 1781-December 1782: The Lady's Poetical Magazine, or Beauties...
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January 1781-December 1782
The Lady's Poetical Magazine, or Beauties of British Poetry appeared, published by James Harrison
in four half-yearly numbers; it is arguable whether or not it kept the first number's promise of generous selections of work...
14 May 1796: After some years of investigating the protection...
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14 May 1796
After some years of investigating the protection given by cowpox against smallpox, Edward Jenner
carried out his first, experimental cowpox injection of a healthy young boy. His subject showed no reaction when later inoculated with...
July 1796: The explorer Mungo Park, abandoned and anxious...
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July 1796
The explorer Mungo Park
, abandoned and anxious on the banks of the Niger River in what is now Mali, was taken in, housed and fed by African village women, who composed and sang...
May 1829: A Ladies' Bazaar to benefit Spanish refugees,...
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May 1829
A Ladies' Bazaar to benefit Spanish refugees, held at the Hanover Square Rooms in London, patron the Duke of Wellington
, raised the remarkable sum of £2,000.
“Deaprtments. Travel. Stanhope, Lady Caroline”. Bernard Quaritch Ltd.
1861: A company in Salem, Massachusetts, issued...
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1861
A company in Salem, Massachusetts, issued what seems to be the earliest version of a game called Authors, whose object was to collect sets of cards bearing the names of writers and the...
1879: Walter Bagehot's Literary Studies, a two-volume...
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1879
Walter Bagehot
's Literary Studies, a two-volume collection of his literary essays, was published posthumously with a memoir by Richard Holt Hutton
.
Bagehot, Walter. Literary Studies. Editor Hutton, Richard Holt, 4th ed., Longmans, Green, 1891, 2 vols.
Texts
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, and John, Baron Hervey. Verses Address’d to the Imitator of the First Satire of the Second Book of Horace. Equal 1st, James Roberts, 112 ll., folio.