Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Editor Halsband, Robert, Clarendon Press.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anna Seward | AS
's correspondence often deals with literary matters as well as with social matters and personalities. She writes with astonishing freedom to Hester Piozzi
about the latter's travel book Observations and Reflections: not only... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Germaine Greer | The introduction begins, It is not quite forty years since eliminating menopause was first mooted. Greer, Germaine. The Change. Penguin. 1 Greer, Germaine. The Change. Penguin. 2 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Clara Balfour | In her general overview of the history of English literature during these centuries, she focuses especially on English poets because as she says, great poets not only give form, power and beauty to a nation's... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Katharine Elwood | Some of the British women writers discussed in the text remain well-known, but others have slipped into obscurity. Memoirs includes: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
, Griselda Murray
, Frances Seymour, Lady Hertford
, Hester Lynch Piozzi |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Eliza Fenwick | For this anthology EF
gathered mostly improving pedagogical material, drawing on revered literary names like Shakespeare
and Milton
, as well as more recent and controversial writers like Thomas Chatterton
and Helen Maria Williams
... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Matilda Betham | Catharine Macaulay
, she insists, was pleasing and delicate in her person, and a woman of great feeling and indisputable abilities, though the democratic spirit of her writings has made them fall into disrepute. Feminist Companion Archive. |
Textual Production | Mary Astell | |
Textual Production | Mary Seymour Montague | It is likely though not absolutely certain that the author was really female. Her pseudonym suggests Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
(who had died nine years earlier, and whom this poem praises as the only woman... |
Textual Production | Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford | The circumstances of misattribution are mysterious, but literary historian Michael F. Suarez
guesses that Dodsley and William Shenstone
deliberately printed this poem as Montagu
's in order to preserve the reputation of the real author... |
Textual Production | Anita Desai | At Cambridge in 1991, AD
composed an introduction for an edition of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
's Turkish Embassy Letters, which appeared from Pickering and Chatto
in 1993 and from Virago Press
in 1994. |
Textual Production | George Paston | Another eighteenth-century biography by GP
appeared: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
and Her Times. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 277 (3 May 1902): 140 Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
Textual Production | Mary Astell | MA
was an inveterate annotator of books; she had some volumes bound with blank pages added for her notes. Among occasional writings produced by her friendship with Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
were angry marginalia in... |
Textual Production | Dervla Murphy | |
Textual Production | Anne Francis | AF
explains in her preliminary discourse (dated 24 July 1781) that she began by making a prose translation. Then she endeavour[ed] to soften, with the flow of numbers, the rugged, inharmonious style of literal translation... |
Textual Production | Mary Astell | Books with Astell's annotations survive among those from William Law
's charitable library in Northamptonshire Record Office
and among the survivors of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
's collection in private, family hands. The Northamptonshire books... |
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