WorkLady Mary Wortley Montagu
Letters of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montague [sic]: Written During Her Travels in Europe, Asia and Africa (first published 1763; many subsequent editions)
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762) · 1763
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Documented 1836–1846
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Selected engagements, in chronological order.
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“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.
“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.