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Letters of Mrs Elizabeth Montagu 4 Volume Set

With Some of the Letters of her Correspondents

Author: Elizabeth Montagu   Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies

This four-volume edition of the letters of Mrs Elizabeth Montagu was edited by her nephew and published in 1809-13.

This four-volume edition of the letters of Mrs Elizabeth Montagu was edited by her nephew and adopted son Matthew (1762–1831) and published in 1809–13. The first two volumes cover the period from 1732 to 1744; the second two cover the period to 1761 and end with Montagu's account of the coronation of George III.

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This four-volume edition of the letters of Mrs Elizabeth Montagu was edited by her nephew and published in 1809-13.

This four-volume edition of the letters of Mrs Elizabeth Montagu was edited by her nephew and adopted son Matthew (1762–1831) and published in 1809–13. The first two volumes cover the period from 1732 to 1744; the second two cover the period to 1761 and end with Montagu's account of the coronation of George III.

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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: the first two volumes cover the period from the teenaged Montagu's letters to her older friend Lady Margaret Harley (later duchess of Portland), to 1744; the second two volumes cover the period to 1761 and end with Montagu's account of the coronation of George III.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Published
26th March 2015
Pages
1376
ISBN
9781108081733

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