Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

26 May 1689 - 21 August 1762

Standard Name: Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

Birth Name: Mary Pierrepont

Styled: Lady Mary Pierrepont

Nickname: Flavia

Nickname: Sappho

Married Name: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Indexed Name: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Pseudonym: Strephon

Pseudonym: Clarinda

Pseudonym: A Turkey Merchant

LMWM , eighteenth-century woman of letters, identified herself as a writer, a sister of the quill

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Editor Halsband, Robert, Clarendon Press.

3: 173

haunted by the daemon of poetry. She wrote poems, essays, letters (including the letters from Europe and Turkey which she later recast as a highly successful travel book), fiction (including adult fairy-tale, oriental tale, and full-length mock romance), satire, a diary, a play, a political periodical, and a history of her own times. Not all of these survive. Best known in her lifetime for her poetry, she is today still best known for her letters.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Editor Halsband, Robert, Clarendon Press.

3: 173, 183

Full profile

Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
Publishing	Sarah Fielding	The work was dedicated to Lady Pomfret . Its 440 subscribers included many prominent people, reflecting the bluestockings' range of influence as well as SF 's local and family connections: Ralph Allen , Lord Chesterfield
Reception	Judith Cowper Madan	Pope complimented Judith Cowper (later Madan) in To Erinna on her (still unpublished) lines to him. He praised her for not seeking, like Lady Mary Wortley Montagu , to emulate the sun's brightness, but for...
Reception	Marie-Catherine de Villedieu	This was one of three publications by MCV which Lady Mary Wortley Montagu had in her library (besides a sequel to another Villedieu work). “List of Lady Mary Wortley’s books packed up to be sent abroad”. Wharncliffe Muniments, Sheffield, p. M / 135 / 3.
Reception	Anne Irwin	AI 's Epistle to Pope was anthologized in The New Foundling Hospital for Wit, in the 1770s. Mary Robinson , praising it in 1799, thought it was written by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu .
Reception	Queen Elizabeth I	The immense and long-lasting interest aroused by Elizabeth is not, of course, primarily due to her writings, any more than were the adulation paid her during her lifetime, the cult of Gloriana, the Virgin Queen...
Reception	Caroline Norton	She treated her own request as if it were just any appeal for patronage: I do not know if there be any precedent for appointing a female poet laureate even in a Queen's reign...
Residence	Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton	During the final months before separating from her husband, Rosina Lytton lived at Berrymead Priory at Acton west of London (the house from which Lady Mary Wortley Montagu had made an early, unsuccessful attempt to...
Textual Features	Charlotte Forman	With probably pleasurable irony and in the tradition of Mary Astell and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu , this essay presents its author as a great admirer of the literary productions of the fair sex, which...
Textual Features	Mathilde Blind	MB 's other Byron introduction, to her selection of his letters and journals, positions the genre (with reference to human curiosity, and to the epistolary novel as well as to the letters of Sevigné and...
Textual Features	Janet Little	She consistently takes a challenging stance in face of authority. Ironically (in view of Johnson's championing of women writers and Burns's snobbish attitude about herself) she uses Samuel Johnson as a symbol of the tyrant-critic...
Textual Features	Mary Deverell	In a poem about dancing, MD praises the Duchesses of Devonshire and Rutland . Deverell, Mary. Miscellanies in Prose and Verse. Printed for the author by J. Rivington, Jun. 1: 79-80 She gives one epistle a kind of doggerel title: Advice to a Rev'rend Cleric, Near his grand climacteric, That...
Textual Features	Anna Mary Howitt	Opening in Nottingham in December 1830, this book relates the stories of two aspiring artists whose lives become entwined in various ways. Leonard Mordant is the offspring of an ill-assorted marriage between a talented but...
Textual Features	Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins	Though Theresa writes most of the letters in the book, the opening one, as often in women's epistolary novels at this date, is an exchange between men. Tomlins, however, does not attempt to capture a...
Textual Features	Anna Seward	The series (completed in 1791) developed from AS 's strictures on John Weston 's contributions to a book entitled Records of the Woodmen of Arden. She compared Dryden with Pope to the advantage of...
Textual Features	Anna Seward	The sonnets are written in strict Milton ic form. One of their favourite themes is love of nature and the countryside; one or two deal with Seward's love for Honora Sneyd . In rendering Horace...

Timeline

No timeline events available.

Texts

No bibliographical results available.