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

Furtherreading

Other info : Bibliography

  • Louisa Stuart, "Biographical Anecdotes of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu," in The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, third edition (London: Bohn, 1861).
  • George Paston [i.e., Emily Morse Symonds], Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Her Times (London: Methuen, 1907).
  • Lewis Melville [i.e., Lewis Saul Benjamin], Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Her Life and Letters (London: Hutchinson, 1925).
  • Iris Barry, Portrait of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1928).
  • Lewis Gibbs [i.e., Joseph Walter Cove], The Admirable Lady Mary; the Life and Times of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (London: Dent, 1949).
  • Robert Halsband, The Life of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956).
  • Anonymous, Advice to Sappho. Occasioned by her Verses on the Imitator of the first satire of the second book of Horace. By a Gentlewoman (London: Printed for the author & sold by J. Roberts, 1713).
  • Robert Bataille, "The Dating of The Lady's Curiosity and Lady Mary's 'The Fifth Ode of Horace Imitated,'" American Notes and Queries, 18, no. 6 (1980): 87-88.
  • Miriam Benkovitz, "Some Observations on Women's Concept of Self in the Eighteenth Century," in Woman in the Eighteenth Century and Other Essays, edited by Paul Fritz and Richard Morton (Toronto & Sarasota; Hakkert, 1976).
  • Jeremy Black, "Lady Mary Reports," Scriblerian, 17, no. 1 (1984): 82.
  • Marie-Louise Dufrenoy, "Lady Mary Wortley Montagu et la satire orientale," in Proceedings of the IVth Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association, edited by François Jost (The Hague: Mouton, 1966), II: 1332-1343.
  • Isobel Grundy, " 'The Entire Works of Clarinda': Unpublished Juvenile Verse by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu," Yearbook of English Studies, 7 (1977): 91-107.
  • Grundy, "A Moon of Literature: Verse by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu," New Rambler, 112, no. 1 (1972): 6-22.
  • Grundy, "Ovid and Eighteenth-Century Divorce: An Unpublished Poem by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu," Review of English Studies, new series, 23, no. 92 (1972): 417-428.
  • Grundy, "The Politics of Female Authorship," Book Collector, 31, no. 1 (1982): 19-37.
  • Grundy, "Pope, Peterborough, and the Characters of Women," Review of English Studies, new series, 20, no. 80 (1969): 461-468.
  • Grundy, "Verses Address'd to the Imitator of Horace: A Skirmish between Pope and Some Persons of Rank and Fortune," Studies in Bibliography, 30 (1977): 96-119.
  • Robert Halsband, "Algarotti as Apollo: His Influence on Lady Mary Wortley Montagu," in Friendship's Garland: Essays Presented to Mario Praz on his Seventieth Birthday, edited by Vittorio Gabrieli (Rome: Storia e Letteratura, 1966), I: 223-241.
  • Halsband, "Ladies of Letters in the Eighteenth Century," in The Lady of Letters in the Eighteenth Century; Papers Read at a Clark Library Seminar, January 18, 1969 (Los Angeles: Clark Memorial Library, 1969), pp. 31-51.
  • Halsband, "Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Eighteenth-Century Fiction," Philological Quarterly, 45, no. 1 (1966): 145-156.
  • Halsband, "Lady Mary Wortley Montagu as a Friend of Continental Writers," John Rylands Library Bulletin (University of Manchester), 39, no. 1 (1956): 57-74.
  • Halsband, "Lady Mary Wortley Montagu as Letter-Writer," PMLA, 80, no. 3 (1965): 155-163.
  • Halsband, "Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Answer to Dorset's Ballad," Huntington Library Quarterly, 30, no. 4 (1950): 409-413.
  • Halsband, " 'The Lady's Dressing Room' Explicated by a Contemporary," in The Augustan Milieu: Essays Presented to Louis A. Landa, edited by Henry K. Miller, Eric Rothstein, and George S. Rousseau (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970), pp. 225-231.
  • Halsband, Lord Hervey, Eighteenth-Century Courtier (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973).
  • Halsband, "Pope, Lady Mary, and the Court Poems (1716)," PMLA, 68, no. 1 (1953): 237-250.
  • Alice Hufstader, Sisters of the Quill (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1978).
  • Ruth Perry, The Celebrated Mary Astell (Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 1986).
  • Valerie Rumbold, Women's Place in Pope's World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989).
  • Arthur Sherbo and Isobel Grundy, "A 'Spurious' Poem by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu?," Notes and Queries, new series, 27 (October, 1980): 407-410.
  • Hilda Smith, Reason's Disciples; Seventeenth-Century English Feminists (Urbana, III., Chicago & London: University of Illinois Press, 1982).
  • Warren H. Smith, ed., Horace Walpole: Writer, Politician, Connoisseur (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1967), pp. 215-226 and Appendix III: 339.
  • Joseph Spence, Anecdotes, Observations, and Characters of Books and Men (London: J. Murray, 1820).
  • The major manuscripts are those held by Harrowby Manuscripts Trust, Sandon Hall, Stafford, and those held with the Wharncliffe Muniments on deposit in the Sheffield City Library. Other important collections of Montagu's papers and related material are at the Bodleian Library, Oxford; the British Library; Cornell University; the Fisher Library, University of Sydney, Australia; the Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, Cal.; the John Rylands Library, University of Manchester; the New York Public Library; the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York; the Pforzheimer Library, New York; the University of Nottingham Manuscript Library; the Firestone Library, Princeton University; and the Beinecke Rare Book Library, Yale University.