Lady Mary's father, Evelyn Pierrepont
, was a youngest son, an able, forceful, libertine man who became an earl during her infancy, when the second of his elder brothers died. On 10 August 1715 he...
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
LMWM
's lifelong diary was burned in two instalments. When she eloped she left the early portion behind, and her sister
burned it lest it should fall into her father
's hands. Just before she...