Essays and Poems and 'Simplicity', a Comedy (Paperback, Revised)

Despite being an aristocrat and a woman, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) made herself a writer. Although she was long well-known as a `character', letter writer, and traveller, this revised paperback edition of her writings appears at a time when interest in her literary work is now widespread and serious. Lady Mary saw herself as `haunted by the Daemon of Poesie'. She wrote literary criticism of Addison and the only essay by a woman published in the Spectator, together with spirited verse replies to Pope and Swift and passionate love-poems which dispute the period's label `Age of Reason'. Her essays (some published anonymously in newspapers) and poems (many of which appeared with her secret connivance) deal with issues still alive and accessible today: love, marriage, prejudice against women writers, and the medical breakthrough of smallpox innoculation. Her comedy, Simplicity, has been recently revived in productions around the UK. Hard-hitting, eloquent, and often funny, the work of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu will be essential reading for the growing number of scholars, students and general readers of women's writing.

General

Imprint:	Clarendon Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Clarendon Paperbacks
Release date:	August 1993
First published:	October 1993
Authors:	Mary Wortley Montagu
Editors:	Robert Halsband (late Professor of English) • Isobel Grundy (Henry Marshall Tory Professor)
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	442
Edition:	Revised
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-812288-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General
LSN:	0-19-812288-8
Barcode:	9780198122883

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