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Born in May 1, 1689 / Died in August 21, 1762 / United Kingdom / English

Bibliography

Other info : Furtherreading

  • Virtue in Danger: Or Arthur Gray's last Farewell to the World. Written by a Gentleman at St. James's; (Tune, of Chivy Chase) [broadside], anonymous (London, n.d.).
  • Court Poems (London: Printed for J. Roberts, 1706 [i.e., 1716]).
  • The Genuine Copy of a Letter written from Constantinople by An English Lady ... to a Venetian Nobleman (London: Printed & sold by J. Roberts & A. Dodd, 1719).
  • VERSES Address'd to the IMITATOR of the FIRST SATIRE of the Second Book of Horace, by Montagu and John, Lord Hervey (London: Printed for A. Dodd, 1733).
  • An Elegy to a Young Lady, in the manner of Ovid ... With an answer. By a Lady, author of the Verses to the Imitator of Horace, by Montagu and James Hammond (London: Printed for J. Roberts, 1733).
  • The Dean's Provocation for Writing the Lady's Dressing-Room (London: Printed for T. Cooper, 1734).
  • The Nonsense of Common Sense, 9 issues (London, 16 December 1737-14 March 1738); modern edition, edited by Robert Halsband (Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1947).
  • Six Town Eclogues. With Some Other Poems, edited by Horace Walpole (London: Printed for M. Cooper, 1747).
  • Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M--y W---y M----e [sic]: Written during her Travels in Europe, Asia and Africa, to Persons of Distinction, Men of Letters, &c. in different parts of Europe, 3 volumes (London: Printed for T. Becket & P. A. De Hondt, 1763; New York, 1766); enlarged as Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M--y W----y M----e [sic] ... A New Edition. To Which Are Now First Added, Poems, by the Same Author, 2 volumes (London: Printed for T. Cadell, T. Evans, J. Murray & R. Baldwin, 1784).

Editions and Collections

  • The Poetical Works of the Right Honourable Lady M-y W-y M-e [sic], edited by Isaac Reed (London: Printed for J. Williams, 1768; Philadelphia: Printed by Robert Bell, 1769).
  • The Works of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Including her correspondence, poems and essays, edited by James Dallaway, 5 volumes (London: R. Phillips, 1803).
  • The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, edited by James, Lord Wharncliffe, 2 volumes (London: R. Bentley, 1837); third edition, revised by W. Moy Thomas (London: Bohn, 1861).
  • "A Critical Edition of the Verse of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu," edited by Isobel Grundy, Ph.D. dissertation, Oxford University, 1970.
  • Court Eclogs Written in the year, 1716: Alexander Pope's autograph manuscript of poems by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, edited by Robert Halsband (New York: New York Public Library & Readex, 1977).
  • Essays and Poems and Simplicity A Comedy, edited by Halsband and Grundy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977).

Other

  • "Constantinople To----," in A New Miscellany, edited by Anthony Hammond (London: Printed for T. Jauncy, 1720).
  • Robert Dodsley, ed., A Collection of Poems by Several Hands, 3 volumes, includes poems by Montagu (London: Printed for R. Dodsley, 1748).
  • George Colman, ed., Poems by Eminent Ladies, 2 volumes, includes poems by Montagu (London: Printed for R. Baldwin, 1755).

Letters

  • The Genuine Copy of a Letter written from Constantinople by An English Lady ... to a Venetian Nobleman (London: Printed & sold by J. Roberts & A. Dodd, 1719).
  • Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M--y W---y M---e [sic]: Written during her Travels in Europe, Asia and Africa, to Persons of Distinction, Men of Letters, &c., in different parts of Europe, 3 volumes (London: Printed for T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, 1763).
  • The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, edited by James, Lord Wharncliffe, third edition, revised by W. Moy Thomas (London: Bohn, 1861).
  • The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, edited by Robert Halsband, 3 volumes (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965-1967).