UID:
almahu_9947415506602882
Format:
1 online resource (318 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781316156001 (ebook)
Series Statement:
Cambridge library collection. Literary studies
Uniform Title:
Correspondence. Selections
Content:
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 2 covers the period from 1741 to 1744, including her marriage to the fifty-year-old Edward Montagu in August 1742, and the sudden death of her beloved only son in 1744.
Note:
Originally published in London by T. Cadell in 1809.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9781108081702
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316156001