Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Halsband, RobertEditor , Clarendon Press, 1967.
3: 173
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 | 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 | 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... |
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 | 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore | Her mother, born Mary Gilbert
, from a gentry family in Hertfordshire, was her father's second wife, married more than twenty years after the death of his first. (That first wife, the beautiful, scholarly, fourteen-year-old... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Amelia Opie | AO
accepted a proposal of marriage from a nobleman, Lord Herbert Stuart
; but she later broke off the engagement. Stuart, the second son of the fourth Earl (later the first Marquess) of Bute, was... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Louisa Stuart | It gave LLS
some trouble as a child that her grandmother was Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
: I am sure I heartily hated her name. Whatever I wanted to learn, everybody was up in arms... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford | Lord Hertford (whose titles after his mother's death included Baron de Percy) was then a well-known rake whose lifestyle included daily drinking bouts with cronies until late at night. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
depicted... |