Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (318 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s)
ISBN:
9781316156001
Serie:
Cambridge library collection. Literary studies
Originaltitel:
Correspondence Selections
Inhalt:
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
Anmerkung:
Originally published in London by T. Cadell in 1809
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781108081702
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781108081702
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9781316156001