num_pages: 518
description: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu is one of the great eighteenth-century letter writers. In this, the first new edition for over a century, her letters are edited in a complete text based on her manuscripts, accurately transcribed and fully annotated. The first volume, for the years 1708-1720, contains three main groups of letters: those to Edward Worley Montagu during their long courtship and early married life; the entirely new series of letters to Philippa Mundy, valuable especially for its oblique light on the courtship; and the brilliant, revealing letters written when Lady Mary accompanied her husband on his Embassy assignment to Constantinople from 1716 to 1718.
language: English
title: The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Vol 1: 1708-20
titlecomplete: The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Vol 1: 1708-20
genres: History, Nonfiction, Biography
ratings_count: 13
publisher: Oxford University Press