ENGLISH

Letters

By Montagu , Mary Wortley

Book information

Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN
9780375712869, 0679417478, 1857151313, 0375712860
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
4 MB (4413857 bytes)
Series
Everyman's library 131
Pages
xlix, 558 pages\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
AuthorsEnglish--18th century--Correspondence;AuthorsEnglish--Correspondence--18th century;BIOGRAPHY &English;AuthorsLady--Correspondence;Voyages and travels;Voyages aMary Wortley

Description

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).

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