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Elizabeth Montagu, the Queen of the Bluestockings
Elizabeth Montagu
其他書名
Her Correspondence from 1720 to 1761
出版Cambridge University Press, 2011-06-16
主題History / Europe / Great Britain / GeneralLiterary Collections / LettersLiterary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
ISBN11080295239781108029520
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=f8X6vbhi6P8C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Bluestocking, author and hostess, Elizabeth Montagu (1718-1800) exercised an influence far beyond literary scholarship. Compiled by a relative, Emily Climenson, and published in 1906, this collection of her correspondence provides an excellent introduction to the culture and politics of eighteenth-century polite society. In chapters enriched by portraits of both Elizabeth and her correspondents, readers are invited to witness the public and personal interactions and entertainments of Montagu and her circle. The text contains accounts of operas, masquerades, concerts and marriages, and serious philosophical conjectures are mingled with witty and sometimes acerbic notes on 'gowns and fans', 'the northern gentry', 'spa towns' and the gallant actions of 'a brave gamekeeper'. Interwoven with portions of letters received from intimate friends, in particular the Duke and Duchess of Portland, Volume 1 takes the reader from Montagu's birth through to 1751.