Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762)
Auteur de L'Islam au péril des femmes. Une anglaise en Turquie au XVIIIe siècle
A propos de l'auteur
Lady Mary, as Montagu is known, was among the truly independent women of eighteenth-century England. During her lifetime she was much admired as a poet of stylish wit; afterward she was highly regarded as a correspondent of keen observation. While still a young woman, she eloped with Edward Wortley afficher plus Montagu and, when he was appointed ambassador, accompanied him to Constantinople. On her return to England, she brought with her the vaccine for smallpox (she had meanwhile contracted the disease). She was the leading woman of letters of her day, and, while she quarreled in print with her friends Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift, she returned their attacks with at least equal force. From 1739 until just before her death in 1762, she left England and her husband for Italy; from Brescia she wrote to her daughter letters so brimming with learning that Voltaire compared them favorably to those of Mme de Sevigne (see Vol. 2). (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
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Œuvres de Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Lettres de Milady Worthley Montague, : écrites pendant ses voyages en diverses parties du monde (1763) 184 exemplaires
The works of the Right Honorable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu : including her correspondence, poems, and essays 6 exemplaires
The travel letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 5 exemplaires
The complete letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 4 exemplaires
Tra le donne turche Lettere 1716-1718 2 exemplaires
Verses addressed to the imitator of the First Satire of the Second Book of Horace [i.e. Alexander Pope]. By a Lady… 2 exemplaires
Woman Not Inferior to Man: Or, a Short and Modest Vindication of the Natural Right of the Fair Sex to a Perfect Equ (1975) 2 exemplaires
Letters and Works, 2 vols. 2 exemplaires
The Works of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Including Her Correspondence, Poems, and Essays, vol. IV (1999) 2 exemplaires
Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M--y W-----y M------e: Written, During her Travels in Europe, Asia and Africa, to… (2018) 1 exemplaire
Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montague 1 exemplaire
Letters to Sir James and Lady Frances Steuart; also memoirs and anecdotes of those distinguished persons 1 exemplaire
Court eclogs written in the year, 1716 : Alexander Pope's autograph manuscript of poems by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1977) 1 exemplaire
Letters from Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 1 exemplaire
The Works of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Including Her Correspondence, Poems and Essays 1 exemplaire
Letters from the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, 1709-1762 (Everyman's Library) 1 exemplaire
The Works of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Including Her Correspondence, Poems and Essays. Volume 5:… (2001) 1 exemplaire
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley Archive 1 exemplaire
Letters, with preface by a Lady written in 1724 1 exemplaire
Epistle from Mrs Yonge to Her Husband 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
The Other Eighteenth Century: English Women of Letters, 1660-1800 (1991) — Contributeur — 32 exemplaires
Lapham's Quarterly - The Future: Volume IV, Number 4, Fall 2011 (2011) — Contributeur — 23 exemplaires
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 4th Edition, Volume 1 (1974) — Contributeur — 20 exemplaires
English Verse: Volume 3: The Eighteenth Century: Swift to Crabbe (Penguin Classics) (1995) — Contributeur — 11 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1689-05-15
- Date de décès
- 1762-08-21
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- UK
- Lieu de naissance
- London, England, UK
- Lieu du décès
- London, England, UK
- Lieux de résidence
- London, England, UK
Istanbul, Ottoman Turkey
Florence, Tuscany, Italy
Avignon, France
Brescia, Italy
Gottolengo - Études
- at home
- Professions
- poet
letter writer
playwright
aristocrat
essayist
translator (tout afficher 7)
diarist - Relations
- Stuart, Lady Louisa (granddaughter)
Pope, Alexander (friend)
Astell, Mary (friend)
Gay, John (friend) - Courte biographie
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, née Pierrepont, was born in London, a daughter of Evelyn and Mary Pierrepont. Her father became earl of Kingston the year after her birth. She was educated at home and taught herself Latin in her father's library. Her early influences were the classics, John Dryden, and French romances. In 1710, she translated the Enchiridion (Handbook) of the ancient Greek philosopher Epictetus from Latin into English and sent a copy to Gilbert Brunet, Bishop of Salisbury, with a letter defending women's right to formal education. Despite her initial reluctance, in 1712, she married Edward Wortley Montagu, a lawyer, diplomat, and Member of Parliament. Her first published writing appeared in 1714 in Addison's Spectator, under the pseudonym Lady President. During this period she also became friends with a literary circle that included Alexander Pope and John Gay. She is chiefly known today for the letters she wrote while the couple were living in 1716-1718 in Constantinople (present-day Istanbul), where her husband served as the British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire. Her writings are considered an extremely valuable historical resource, and the earliest secular work by a woman about the Muslim world. She also wrote volumes of poems, essays, a brief epistolary novel, and a play. Lady Mary kept a diary, but it was burned after her death by her daughter Mary, Lady Bute. Her surviving Letters and Works were published in 1837 with an introduction by her granddaughter Lady Louisa Stuart.
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- Œuvres
- 48
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- 15
- Membres
- 848
- Popularité
- #30,161
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 12
- ISBN
- 72
- Langues
- 7
- Favoris
- 2
Ce petit volume (il ne contient quune sélection de lettres) tient dans la poche intérieure d'une veste. Il est intitulé LIslam au coeur, ce qui est un peu trompeur: lady Montagu s'occupe fort peu de théologie mais surtout de moeurs et de son propre enchantement. Fin, intelligent, délicieux.