Name: The Letters of mrs Elizabeth Montagu 4 Volume Set: The Letters of mrs Elizabeth Montagu - Volume 1 (Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies)
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Author: Elizabeth Montagu
ISBN: 9781108081696

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Physical Book

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Author

Elizabeth Montagu

Year

2015

Language

English

Pages

314

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781108081696

Synopsis "The Letters of mrs Elizabeth Montagu 4 Volume Set: The Letters of mrs Elizabeth Montagu - Volume 1 (Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies)"

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.

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