num_pages: 714
description: With interest growing in the tradition of women's writing, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762) has been transformed from a colorful eccentric to an important writer. This book is the first to take her writing achievement seriously, as well as re-telling a life-story which every newly uncovered detail renders more extraordinary.
language: English
title: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment
titlecomplete: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment
characters: Mary Wortley Montagu
genres: Biography, History, 18th Century, British Literature, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 23
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: James Tait Black Memorial Prize
category: Biography
publisher: Oxford University Press