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Saturday, July 3, 2010

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: On Lord Lyttleton's 'Advice to a Lady'


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The Marriage Contract



Be Plain in Dress and Sober in your Diet;
In short my Dearee, kiss me, and be quiet.






Shortly After the Marriage


File:Lady Mary Wortley Montagu with her son  Edward by Jean  Baptiste Vanmour.jpg



On Lord Lyttleton's 'Advice to a Lady': Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Lady Mary Wortley Montague (1689-1732), has been referred by one literary historian (Nicholas Sanders, Oxford Short History of English Literature) as "that great letter-writer, pioneer feminist and intellectual snob..."

Paintings by William Hogarth, from Marriage à-la-Mode, 1743-1745 (National Gallery, London):
The Marriage Contract
Shortly After the Marriage

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu with her son Edward Worthy Montagu, and attendants: Jean Baptise Vanmour, c. 1717 (National Portrait Gallery, London), image by Dcoetzee, 2009

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