The Letters of Lady M. W. Montagu, During the Embassy to Constantinople 1716-18
Author: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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Published: 1835
Total Pages: 258
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Author: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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Published: 1835
Total Pages: 258
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: C. S. Lewis
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2014-10-22
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 0802871828
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen Lewis was 51 years old and long established at Magdalen College, Oxford, he wrote the first of this collection of letters to an American widow. She was described as a "very charming, gracious, southern aristocratic lady who loved to talk and speak well". In them are his antipathy to journalism, advertising, snobbery, psychoanalysis, and the petty practices that sap freedoms. They identify events in his life after 1950 including his marriage to Joy Davidman and her death three years later.
Author: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Publisher: Ravenio Books
Published: 2015-06-18
Total Pages: 269
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKLady Mary Wortley Montagu (15 May 1689 – 21 August 1762) was the wife of British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, mainly remembered for her letters from Turkey and their insightful remarks on life in the Muslim Orient.
Author: Marieke Hardy
Publisher: Penguin Group Australia
Published: 2011-09-28
Total Pages: 407
ISBN-13: 1742534325
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn a world of the short and swift, of texts and Twitter, there's something of special value about a carefully composed letter. In homage to this most civilised of activities, Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire created the literary afternoons of Women of Letters. Some of Australia's finest dames of stage, screen and page have delivered missives on a series of themes, collected here for the first time. Claudia Karvan sends 'A love letter' to love itself, Helen Garner contacts ghosts of her past in 'The letter I wish I'd written', Noni Hazlehurst dispatches a stinging rebuke 'To my first boss', and Megan Washington pays tribute to her city and community as she writes 'To the best present I ever received'. And some gentlemen correspondents - including Paul Kelly, Eddie Perfect and Bob Ellis - have been invited to put pen to paper in a letter 'To the woman who changed my life'. By turns hilarious, moving and outrageous, this is a diverse and captivating tribute to the art of letter writing. All royalties for this book will go to Edgar's Mission animal rescue shelter.
Author: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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Published: 1861
Total Pages: 562
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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Published: 1965
Total Pages: 526
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe second volume of Lady Mary's Complete Letters includes the brilliant series to her sister Lady Mar, now for the first time edited entirely from the original manuscripts; the long, varied series to Lady Pomfret, from England as well as the Continent; the dutiful letters, many previously unprinted, to her husband about her travels and about her children; and the series to Lady Oxford, annotated from Lady Oxford's own manuscripts. Of the new correspondences, the most significant are her letters to Francesco Algarotti, which reveal new aspects of her personality and of her art as a letter-writer, and me ample series (in French) to Madame Chiara Bragadin Michiel, a Venetian lady, which displays her graciousness sparked with flashes of wit.
Author: Lisa Grunwald
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
Published: 2009-01-21
Total Pages: 833
ISBN-13: 0307493334
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHistorical events of the last three centuries come alive through these women’s singular correspondences—often their only form of public expression. In 1775, Rachel Revere tries to send financial aid to her husband, Paul, in a note that is confiscated by the British; First Lady Dolley Madison tells her sister about rescuing George Washington’s portrait during the War of 1812; one week after JFK’s assassination, Jacqueline Kennedy pens a heartfelt letter to Nikita Khrushchev; and on September 12, 2001, a schoolgirl writes a note of thanks to a New York City firefighter, asking him, “Were you afraid?” The letters gathered here also offer fresh insight into the personal milestones in women’s lives. Here is a mid-nineteenth-century missionary describing a mastectomy performed without anesthesia; Marilyn Monroe asking her doctor to spare her ovaries in a handwritten note she taped to her stomach before appendix surgery; an eighteen-year-old telling her mother about her decision to have an abortion the year after Roe v. Wade; and a woman writing to her parents and in-laws about adopting a Chinese baby. With more than 400 letters and over 100 stunning photographs, Women’s Letters is a work of astonishing breadth and scope, and a remarkable testament to the women who lived–and made–history. From the Hardcover edition.
Author: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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Published: 1887
Total Pages: 574
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mary Wortley Montagu
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Published: 2015-04-01
Total Pages: 467
ISBN-13: 0375712860
DOWNLOAD EBOOKImmensely learned, self-educated in an era when formal schooling was denied to women, Mary Wortley Montagu was an admired poet, a consistently scandalous doyenne of eighteenth-century London society, and, in a period when letter-writing had been elevated to an art form, one of the greatest letter writers in the English language. Her epistles, meant for both public and private consumption, are the product of a mind distinguished by its adventurousness, its indifference to convention, and its eagerness not only to acquire knowledge but to convey it with unmitigated style and grace. (Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)
Author: Dwight Young
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9781426200878
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCollects letters, some of which appear as full-size facsimiles, written over the centuries to America's first ladies by ordinary citizens and famous figures, and includes historical information to illuminate the writer's concerns and ideas.