Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon, 1999.
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's sister Lady Mar
arrived in London from Paris. Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon, 1999. 267 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | LMWM
's deranged sister, Frances, Lady Mar
, was abducted and carried off by agents of her brother-in-law Lord Grange
, in pursuit of his own financial interest. This was the same Lord Grange who... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | LMWM
's deranged sister Lady Mar
was placed under her guardianship. Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon, 1999. 280 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | LMWM
's closest sister, Frances
, was married in 1714 to John Erskine, Earl of Mar
. He led the first Jacobite rebellion to disaster in 1715 (leaving his wife and one-day-old daughter for this... |
Friends, Associates | Grisell Murray | At almost every stage of GM
's life, her family had the habit of spending part of their time at their London house, where she evidently moved in literary as well as fashionable circles. She... |
Friends, Associates | Winifred Maxwell Countess of Nithsdale | WMCN
's early and close relationship with her sister-in-law Mary, Countess of Traquair
, née Maxwell, suffered vicissitudes over the years through her poverty and her husband's shameless requests for money. In 1718 the Traquairs... |
Textual Features | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | Montagu in her travel book shows herself an acute observer of the various Christian European cultures, as well as of Islamic Europe and Turkey, and the classically-haunted Mediterranean. She tends to approve Protestant... |
Textual Production | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | LMWM
wrote her surviving letters on London society to her sister Lady Mar
, exiled in Paris. Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Editor Halsband, Robert, Clarendon Press, 1965–1967, 3 vols. 2: 1-86 |
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