The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Europe) (Volume 2) - Softcover

Montagu, Mary Wortley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1108073166 ISBN 13: 9781108073165

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2011

Synopsis

Self-taught in her father's library, the writer, satirist and poet Lady Mary Wortley Montagu had an inexhaustible appetite for travel and society. This third edition of her Letters and Works (1866) offers insight into the ambitions and frustrations of one of the most unconventional women of the eighteenth century. Volume 2 continues the collection of her humorous, sometimes acerbic writings with correspondence from her travels in Italy. Her letters from abroad during the heyday of the Grand Tour reveal a sociable woman enjoying the sights and society of Florence, Bologna, Venice, Naples and Rome, while hosting salons, and courting controversy. Enhanced by an engraved portrait of her husband, Edward Wortley Montagu, this volume completes an entertaining and informative collection of correspondence. For more information on this author, see http://orlando.cambridge.org/public/svPeople?person_id=montma

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Book Description:

The writer Lady Mary Wortley Montagu had an inexhaustible appetite for travel. Volume 2 of her Letters and Works contains humorous, sometimes acerbic missives from her time in Italy. Her letters reveal a sociable woman enjoying the sights and society of Florence, Bologna, Venice, Naples and Rome.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1108073166
• ISBN 13: 9781108073165
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 552
• Editor: Wharncliffe James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, Thomas William Moy