UID:
almahu_9947415506502882
Format:
1 online resource (340 pages) :
,
digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781316156025 (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 3 covers the period from 1744 to 1755, and her correspondents include her sister and two of her cousins, whom she keeps supplied with gossip as well as her views on the political and intellectual life of London.
Note:
Originally published in London by T. Cadell in 1813.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9781108081719
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316156025
