The Letters of Mrs Elizabeth MontaguCambridge University Press, 26. märts 2015 - 328 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 2 covers the period from 1741 to 1744, including her marriage to the fifty-year-old Edward Montagu in August 1742, and the sudden death of her beloved only son in 1744. |
Contents
Section 1 | 13 |
Section 2 | 24 |
Section 3 | 31 |
Section 4 | 53 |
Section 5 | 64 |
Section 6 | 67 |
Section 7 | 70 |
Section 8 | 84 |
Section 16 | 168 |
Section 17 | 172 |
Section 18 | 185 |
Section 19 | 219 |
Section 20 | 229 |
Section 21 | 241 |
Section 22 | 252 |
Section 23 | 256 |
Section 9 | 95 |
Section 10 | 115 |
Section 11 | 120 |
Section 12 | 136 |
Section 13 | 145 |
Section 14 | 155 |
Section 15 | 159 |
Section 24 | 280 |
Section 25 | 284 |
Section 26 | 293 |
Section 27 | 297 |
Section 28 | 301 |
Common terms and phrases
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