Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and the Eighteenth-Century Familiar Letter

Author/Contributor(s):	Lowenthal, Cynthia J
Publisher:	University of Georgia Press
Date:	07/01/2010
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

The first critical study of one of the most important women writers of the early eighteenth century, Lady Mary Montagu (1689-1762), who produced a body of erudite and entertaining correspondence that spanned more than fifty years. Her letters illuminate the difficulties she encountered in an era of significant cultural change.