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The Letters of Mrs Elizabeth Montagu - Volume 2

The Letters of Mrs Elizabeth Montagu - Volume 2

Montagu, Matthew
Montagu, Elizabeth

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Literary CriticismFiction AnthologiesBritish History

ISBN10: 1108081703
ISBN13: 9781108081702
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Mar 26 2015
Pages: 328
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.73 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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.

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