A revised selection of Lady Montagu's letters. Besides presenting a vivid picture of manners in a picturesque age, they contain a unique series of impressions from foreign courts seldom visited and nowhere else so intimately described. Lady Mary was the wife of a popular ambassador and, wielding the charm of a strong personality, was enabled to see and hear many things of which the ordinary traveler, or resident abroad, knew-and knows-little or nothing. Originally written, for the most part, to her sisters, her daughter, or to very intimate friends, her Letters are unusually detailed and frank. She was a keen observer, not superior to the love of gossip with a quick eye for the telling features of a story or situation, and an easy, effective style.
Product details
- Paperback | 576 pages
- 129 x 198 x 34.8mm | 467.2g
- 01 Sep 1997
- Penguin Books Ltd
- PENGUIN CLASSICS
- London, United Kingdom
- English
- 168th Revised ed.
- chronology, further reading, index
- 0140434909
- 9780140434903
- 581,036
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