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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu is documented in Fuller’s books, published essays, and journals (1836–1846). 2 distinct works are named, most often in New-York Daily Tribune, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “quoted”.
Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this author is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →
“When a Montague could learn better than her brother, and use her lore afterward to such purpose, as an observer, it seemed amiss to hinder woman from preparing themselves to see, or from seeing all they could, when prepared.”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“Lady M. W. Montague's letters - Eliz Montague's_ Sevigné's _ Washington's - Jefferson's letters _ General Washington's habits”
Fuller, Margaret. "Journal December 1836." Houghton Library, Harvard University; MS Am 1086; Box 3.
Inferred Montague's letters' in Channing's list of English letter-writers; title inferred as Letters from the canonical collected correspondence.
“Lady Mary Montague says, that the court of Vienna was the paradise of old women, and that there is no other place in the world where a woman past fifty excites the least interest.”
Fuller, Margaret. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1844.
Inferred Lady Mary Wortley Montagu is named explicitly within Mrs. The saying about the court of Vienna ('paradise of old women') is consistent with Montagu's famous letters from her time as ambassador's wife in Vienna and Constantinople, preserved in her posthumous Letters (1763).
“he offered her the "Letters of Lady M. W. Montague." She assuring him that it would not be safe to make use of this work”
Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860.
“There has, however, been none since Lady M. W. Montague with as much talent, liveliness and preparation to observe in various ways as she had.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Books of Travel." New-York Daily Tribune, 18 December 1845. · 18 December 1845
“He looked into several, and then, struck by passages here and there, offered her the “Letters of Lady M. W. Montague”!!”
Fuller, Margaret. "Festus: A Poem . . ." New-York Daily Tribune, 8 September 1845. · 8 September 1845
“We remember no diary that could in this respect vie with his, unless it be Lady M. W. Montague's after she retired from the world.”
Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.
Inferred Montague's diary after she retired from the world' — likely the Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu or her manuscript diaries. Fuller compares Mackintosh's reading diary to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's journal/letters from her later years in retirement.
Undated
Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.
“When a Montague could learn better than her brother, and use her lore afterward to such purpose, as an observer, it seemed amiss to hinder woman from preparing themselves to see, or from seeing all they could, when prepared.”
Also reprinted in Woman in the Nineteenth Century. Counted once, at its first appearance.
Fuller, Margaret. "Woman-Her Sphere and Education." New-York Daily Tribune, .