Download or read book Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and the Eighteenth Century Familiar Letter written by Cynthia J. Lowenthal and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is is the first critical study of one of the most important women writers of the early eighteenth century, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762), who produced a body of erudite and entertaining correspondence that spanned more than fifty years. Lady Mary's letters illuminate the difficulties encountered by a sensitive, intelligent, and gifted woman writer living through an era of significant cultural change. These letters display the tensions inherent in the competing demands of public and private life, revealing Lady Mary's own discomfort about the problems of authorship and authority in an age that held publication to be an improper activity for respectable women. Through the discourse of supposedly “private” letters, Lady Mary was able to find an avenue for her talents that brought her “public” stature without violating the imperatives of her position as a woman and an aristocrat. Cynthia Lowenthal argues persuasively that Lady Mary's letters, themselves central to the establishment of the familiar letter as an important eighteenthcentury genre, were self-consciously constructed as literary artifacts and crafted as part of a larger female epistolary tradition. Moreover, Lowenthal contends, the works of Lady Mary are essential to the feminist recuperation of women's writing precisely because she provided an aristocratic critique—a voice often ignored—of the class and gender codes of her day.

Download or read book Letters written by Mary Wortley Montagu and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immensely learned, self-educated in an era when formal schooling was denied to women, Mary Wortley Montagu was an admired poet, a consistently scandalous doyenne of eighteenth-century London society, and, in a period when letter-writing had been elevated to an art form, one of the greatest letter writers in the English language. Her epistles, meant for both public and private consumption, are the product of a mind distinguished by its adventurousness, its indifference to convention, and its eagerness not only to acquire knowledge but to convey it with unmitigated style and grace. (Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)

Download or read book The Best Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu written by Lady Mary (Pierrepont) Wortley Montagu and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Turkish Embassy Letters written by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and published by Ravenio Books. This book was released on 2015-06-18 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (15 May 1689 – 21 August 1762) was the wife of British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, mainly remembered for her letters from Turkey and their insightful remarks on life in the Muslim Orient.

Download or read book The Best Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu written by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Letters of Lady M W Montagu During the Embassy to Constantinople 1716 18 written by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M y W y M e written by Mary Wortley Montagu and published by . This book was released on 1781 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Best Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu written by Octave Thanet and published by . This book was released on 1978-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Best Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu written by Lady Mary Pierrepont Wortley Montagu and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Best Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu These letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu are selected from the edition of W. Moy Thomas, which is based on Lord Wharncliffe's edition of 1837, printed mainly from the original letters. In selecting, the editor has had in view, first, the literary attractiveness of the letters; secondly, the light they throw on Lady Mary's personality; thirdly, their value as free-hand pictures of the time. Comments and notes of the previous editors, Mr. Thomas or Lord Wharncliffe, may be distinguished by their initials. It is needless to say that no pretensions to scholarship are made by this little volume. I have sometimes found it necessary to omit portions of letters, but I have not presumed to chasten Lady Mary's style, any more than I have ventured to alter her eighteenth-century grammar. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu written by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu written by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Letters of Lady Wortley Montagu written by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Selected Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu written by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Letters of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu written by Mary Wortley Montagu and published by . This book was released on 1816 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu written by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The best letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu ed with a dedicatory letter to Lady Montagu by Octave Thanet pseud written by Mary Wortley Montagu (Lady) and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 1708 1720 written by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume of Lady Mary's Complete Letters includes the brilliant series to her sister Lady Mar, now for the first time edited entirely from the original manuscripts; the long, varied series to Lady Pomfret, from England as well as the Continent; the dutiful letters, many previously unprinted, to her husband about her travels and about her children; and the series to Lady Oxford, annotated from Lady Oxford's own manuscripts. Of the new correspondences, the most significant are her letters to Francesco Algarotti, which reveal new aspects of her personality and of her art as a letter-writer, and me ample series (in French) to Madame Chiara Bragadin Michiel, a Venetian lady, which displays her graciousness sparked with flashes of wit.