Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

26 May 1689 - 21 August 1762

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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haunted by the daemon of poetry. She wrote poems, essays, letters (including the letters from Europe and Turkey which she later recast as a highly successful travel book), fiction (including adult fairy-tale, oriental tale, and full-length mock romance), satire, a diary, a play, a political periodical, and a history of her own times. Not all of these survive. Best known in her lifetime for her poetry, she is today still best known for her letters.

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
Friends, Associates	Elizabeth Montagu	The leading figures in the movement were Montagu herself (who spent freely in hospitality, and who was later dubbed the Queen of the Bluestockings or Queen of the Blues) and Carter (the most intellectually...
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...
Intertextuality and Influence	Henrietta Battier	HB (if it is she) presents herself as a brand-new author: a Bardling! - bursting from her Shell! Battier, Henrietta. The Mousiad. P. Byrne, 1787. prelims Her satire on the sexuality of a male ecclesiastic suggests works of several generations earlier by...
Intertextuality and Influence	Elizabeth Griffith	He describes her with a line from Donne 's Second Anniversary. EG 's range of reference here includes Rousseau , Milton , Frances Greville , and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu . Characters discuss and...
Intertextuality and Influence	Aphra Behn	Lady Mary Pierrepont (later Wortley Montagu) wrote an imitation of A Voyage to the Island of Love at the age of about fourteen.
Intertextuality and Influence	Marie de Sévigné	These letters have been immensely popular since their first publication, in France, England, and elsewhere. Numerous male critics have written of their almost personal love for MS . One of those impervious to her charm...
Intertextuality and Influence	Louisa Stuart Costello	These first two volumes were not well-received. The Athenæum reviewer suggested that the dust of the road is ill-exchanged by Miss Costello for the dust of the library. Athenæum. J. Lection. 857 (1844): 287 The ensuing two volumes...
Intertextuality and Influence	Madeleine de Scudéry	As a consequence of this work's success, MS became popularly known as Sappho or the modern Sappho, particularly in connection with her salon. McDougall, Dorothy. Madeleine de Scudéry. Benjamin Blom, 1972. vii, 89, 224, 226 The Grand Cyrus (often called by its...
Intertextuality and Influence	Elizabeth Hands	EH 's pastorals include some touching love-stories, but they also regularly reverse the gender situations traditional to the genre. It is pairs of nymphs (not pairs of shepherds) who are alike ambitious to excel in...
Intertextuality and Influence	Edith Templeton	The epigraph alerts the reader to expect an unusually disillusioned example of the voyage-to-the-island-of-love genre (previously written by Aphra Behn and the future Lady Mary Wortley Montagu ). This novel begins, as did the two...
Intertextuality and Influence	Fanny Aikin Kortright	FAK 's literary allusions here are interesting. Thomas Hood 's The Song of the Shirt is cited more than once, though Kortright insists that the governess is worse off than the seamstress because she is...
Intertextuality and Influence	Madeleine de Scudéry	Aphra Behn took from the Carte de tendre some of the topographical imagery of her verse-and-prose romance A Voyage to the Island of Love (which in turn was the model behind The Adventurer, written...
Intertextuality and Influence	Elizabeth Beverley	The title-page further develops the ship image of the title into a full-blown allegory, a kind of commercialised version of the voyages to an island of love depicted by Madeleine de Scudéry , Aphra Behn
Intertextuality and Influence	Emma Parker	EP says she has studied to avoid a dictatorial tone . . . considering herself rather as one of those [women] she is addressing. Parker, Emma. Important Trifles. T. Egerton, 1817. prelims qtd. in Feminist Companion Archive. She writes as a strong-minded Christian, and makes use of...

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April 1879

James Murray —editor since 1 March of what was to become the Oxford English Dictionary—issued an Appeal for readers to supply illustrative quotations.

Winchester, Simon. The Meaning of Everything. Oxford University Press, 2003.

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February 1906

Publisher J. M. Dent launched Everyman's Library, aiming to reprint 1,000 classic titles: the first year's 155 volumes included Æschylus , Shakespeare , Jane Austen practically complete,

Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.

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