The Letters of Mrs Elizabeth Montagu: With Some of the Letters of Her Correspondents

by Elizabeth Montagu, Montagu Pennington, Elizabeth Carter

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 110808169X
• ISBN13: 9781108081696
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"