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 | Dervla Murphy | DM
's vivid narrative and her discriminating evaluation make this one of the liveliest, as well as the most accurate, of short accounts of Montagu
. Murphy, Dervla et al. “Introduction”. Embassy to Constantinople, Century, pp. 7-37. 7-37 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sophia Hume | She cites both her experience with a child, and the way she owed the benefit of her own conversion to the affliction of having smallpox. But the ultimate argument against inoculation, she says, is that... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Melesina Trench | About the first twenty pages are occupied by MT
's early reminiscences, probably written not long after her first husband's death: she frankly recorded her emotional disturbance over that event. Trench, Melesina. The Remains of the Late Mrs. Richard Trench. Editor Trench, Richard Chenevix, Parker and Bourn. 18 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Flora Tristan | One chapter, entitled English Women, criticizes British social systems, and details the consequences women suffer because of the indissolubility of marriage. Tristan, Flora. Flora Tristan’s London Journal, 1840. Translators Palmer, Dennis and Giselle Pincetl, Charles River Books. 198 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Judith Sargent Murray | She backs this pleasure in modernity with a remarkable grasp of former female history and of the women's literary tradition in English and its contexts. She mentions the Greek foremother Sappho
, the patriotic heroism... |
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... |
Textual Production | Anna Letitia Barbauld | Some of Barbauld's acutest social comment was linked with her pedagogy. Fashion, a Vision, probably written about 1792 for her first private paying pupil, and picking up some ideas from Wollstonecraft
's Vindication,... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Justice | With sublime disregard for relevance, her elaborate title-page further promises a translation from Spanish, collected by the author of the Russian parts of the book, of an account of relics at Oviedo. Despite this... |
Textual Production | Sarah Josepha Hale | SJH
edited both The Letters of Madame de Sévigné
, to Her Daughter and Friends and The Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
. Okker, Patricia. Our Sister Editors. University of Georgia Press, p. 264 pp. 231n31 |
Textual Production | Lady Louisa Stuart | At seventy-nine, LLS
first became a deliberately published author, with her Biographical Anecdotes of Lady M.W. Montagu (also known as Introductory Anecdotes) for her grandmother
's Letters and Works. Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. “Preface”. The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, edited by W. Moy Thomas, Swan Sonnenschein, p. iii - viii. iii Rubenstein, Jill. “Women’s Biography as a Family Affair: Lady Louisa Stuart’s ’Biographical Anecdotes’ of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu”. Prose Studies, Vol. 9 , No. 1, pp. 3-21. 17 |
Textual Production | Lucy Aikin | From 1803 she reviewed for her brother Arthur
's Annual Review, where one of her subjects was the travel letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
. McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press. 501 |
Textual Production | Alice Meynell | She often used this column to address the works of literary women of the past. She judged Jane Austen
inferior to Charlotte Brontë
, accepting Brontë's opinion that Austen lacked what she, by implication, possessed:... |
Textual Production | Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford | The final, 6-volume edition of Robert Dodsley
's Collection of Poems by Several Hands appeared, including a poem by FSCH
which was falsely ascribed to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
, according to the latter. Grundy, Isobel. “The Politics of Female Authorship: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s Reaction to the Printing of Her Poems”. The Book Collector, Vol. 1 , pp. 19-37. 35-6 |
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... |
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