One of the Pyramids of Egypt
Ruth Bernard Yeazell: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, 27 May 1999
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment
by Isobel Grundy.
Oxford, 680 pp., £30, April 1999,0 19 811289 0 Show More
by Isobel Grundy.
Oxford, 680 pp., £30, April 1999,
“... many people left accounts of what she said and did; but it also meant, as her previous biographer, Robert Halsband, has demonstrated, that dubious anecdotes had a habit of attaching themselves to her. Though Grundy attempts to solve the problem of naming by reserving ‘Montagu’ for the literary career and ‘Lady Mary’ for the rest, the variousness ... ”