The Letters of Mrs Elizabeth MontaguCambridge University Press, 26. märts 2015 - 314 pages This four-volume edition of the letters of Mrs Elizabeth Montagu (1718-1800), the 'Queen of the Bluestockings', was edited by her nephew and adopted son Matthew (1762-1831) and published in 1809-13. The daughter of wealthy parents, and well educated in history and languages, at the age of twenty-one she married Edward Montagu, a grandson of the earl of Sandwich whose income derived from northern estates and coal mines, and began to establish a London salon attended by the intellectual cream of British society, including Johnson, Burke, Garrick, Hannah More and Hester Chapone. The letters (and some correspondence from her circle) are arranged chronologically. Volume 1 begins with a short biography, and covers the period from her earliest preserved letter, written in 1732, up to 1741. Her teenage letters to her sister Sarah and her older friend, the duchess of Portland, sparkle with wit and good humour. |
Contents
Section 1 | 13 |
Section 2 | 17 |
Section 3 | 36 |
Section 4 | 40 |
Section 5 | 54 |
Section 6 | 61 |
Section 7 | 68 |
Section 8 | 85 |
Section 22 | 180 |
Section 23 | 194 |
Section 24 | 200 |
Section 25 | 214 |
Section 26 | 220 |
Section 27 | 224 |
Section 28 | 233 |
Section 29 | 244 |
Section 9 | 90 |
Section 10 | 98 |
Section 11 | 102 |
Section 12 | 107 |
Section 13 | 121 |
Section 14 | 124 |
Section 15 | 127 |
Section 16 | 130 |
Section 17 | 132 |
Section 18 | 139 |
Section 19 | 146 |
Section 20 | 152 |
Section 21 | 170 |
Section 30 | 253 |
Section 31 | 257 |
Section 32 | 264 |
Section 33 | 270 |
Section 34 | 277 |
Section 35 | 281 |
Section 36 | 291 |
Section 37 | 294 |
Section 38 | 298 |
Section 39 | 302 |
Section 40 | 304 |
Section 41 | 305 |
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Common terms and phrases
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