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.
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Mary Wortley Montagu Introduction by:
Clare Brant Imprint: Everyman's Library Country of Publication: United Kingdom Dimensions:
Height: 211mm,
Width: 135mm,
Spine: 35mm
Weight: 644g ISBN:9781857151312 ISBN 10: 1857151313 Series:Everyman's Library CLASSICS Pages: 592 Publication Date:15 November 1992 Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Hardback Publisher's Status: Active
Clare Brant is lecturer in English at King's College, London. She is the editor (with Diane Purkiss) of Women, Texts and Histories and the author of 'Le Roman par Lettre' in Les Lettres Europeenes.