Her father, George Bowes
, was one of the thrusting TynesideGrand Alliance or coal cartel of Bowes, Wortley
and Liddell
. As well as an entrepreneur and technological innovator, he was an army officer...
Instructor
Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore
As a girl, Mary Eleanor Bowes received an excellent education and could speak several languages, reading French and Italian authors in the original. It was said that she did not learn Latin, but also that...
Textual Production
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
According to the surviving manuscript, the two women produced their verse responses on the very day that Eleanor Bowes was said (years later, by the cynical Horace Walpole
) to die of the violence of...
