Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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a sister of the quill 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.
, eighteenth-century woman of letters, identified herself as a writer, - BirthName: Mary Pierrepont
- Nicknames: Flavia; SapphoThis was not exactly a pseudonym, but the name of a part-autobiographical fictional character. Pope later employed it allusively as a nickname.was celebrated by various writers and admirers under this name, as were many of her female writing contemporaries.Pope then turned the name against her, using it as a coded allusion whose associations became steadily more and more dirty, lewd, and rapacious.
- Married: Wortley Montagu; WortleyShe signed letters and poems as MWM. During her lifetime her work appeared before the public as by Lady Mary Wortley or The Right Honourable Lady M— W— M—. Montagu as the form of her surname was hardly ever used in England, only abroad. It was sometimes wrongly spelt with a final e.
- Pseudonyms: Strephon; Clarinda; A Turkey Merchant
- Styled: Lady
- Indexed: Montagu