Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Halsband, RobertEditor , Clarendon Press, 1967.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Anthologization | Martha Fowke | Five poems by MF
(as Mrs. Fowke) appeared in good poetic company (with Pope
, Prior
, Susanna Centlivre
, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
, and others) in Anthony Hammond
's A New Miscellany, published on 19 May 1720. |
Birth | Henry Fielding | He was the elder brother of Sarah Fielding
, and second cousin of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
(their grandfathers were brothers). |
Birth | Lady Louisa Stuart | At her christening, on 6 September 1757, Lady Mary Coke
stood proxy for Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
as godmother. Stuart, Lady Louisa. Letters of Lady Louisa Stuart to Miss Louisa Clinton. Home, Hon. James ArchibaldEditor , D. Douglas, 1903. 1: 260 |
death | William Congreve | His hitherto discreet partner the young Duchess of Marlboroughmade herself conspicuous by her public mourning. Harris, Frances. A Passion for Government: The life of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough. Clarendon, 1991. 276 |
death | Henry Fielding | His cousin Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
wrote that HF
and Sir Richard Steele
were both so form'd for Happiness, it is a pity they were not Immortal. Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Halsband, RobertEditor , Clarendon Press, 1967. 3: 88 |
Dedications | Emily Frederick Clark | EFC
published by subscription a volume of Poems: Consisting Principally of Ballads, dedicated to Lady Lonsdale
(eldest grand-daughter of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
). OCLC WorldCat. Clark, Emily Frederick. Poems: Consisting Principally of Ballads. F. C. and J. Rivington, 1810. prelims |
Dedications | L. E. L. | It was dedicated to Lady Emmeline Stuart Wortley
, descendant of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
. A modern reprint appeared in 1992. |
Education | Elizabeth Grant | EG
refers to a number of texts that influenced her as a child. She learned to read by the age of three, taught by loving aunts, and remembered in particular Puss in Boots, Bluebeard... |
Education | Helen Dunmore | While HD
was growing up she read a lot of Russian fiction and poetry. McCrum, Robert. “The Siege is a novel for now”. The Observer. McCrum, Robert. “The Siege is a novel for now”. The Observer. |
Education | Jane Gardam | She was twelve when she overheard her English teacher telling her parents that she was clever, well ahead of the standard for her age. By this time she was attending Saltburn High School
for Girls... |
Education | George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron | Byron's voracious reading in childhood was probably fostered by an unhappy emotional life from which imaginative escape was welcome. His favourite books were then the Arabian Nights and travel books about the East, especially that... |
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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Margaret Calderwood | MC
's brother, another James Steuart
, was educated at school and university and on the Grand Tour. He married Lady Frances Wemyss
in 1743, and two years later, because she was ill with smallpox... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Judith Cowper Madan | Soon afterwards Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
, appropriating her voice in Miss Cooper to —, makes the unmarried Judith Cowper express a tormented love for Lysander, who in this poem is uncaring and... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Irwin | Nearly a decade after his death Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
addressed to the widow an poetic argument against infidelity so jaunty as to suggest she did not think him a husband worth mourning. Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. Essays and Poems and Simplicity, A Comedy. Halsband, Robert and Isobel GrundyEditors , Oxford University Press, 1993. 257-8 |