Letters to an American Lady
Letters to an American Lady

Author: C. S. Lewis

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 2014-10-22

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 0802871828

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When 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.

Turkish Embassy Letters
Turkish Embassy Letters

Author: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Publisher: Ravenio Books

Published: 2015-06-18

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13:

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Lady 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.

The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: 1708-1720
The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: 1708-1720

Author: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Publisher:

Published: 1965

Total Pages: 526

ISBN-13:

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The 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.

The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: 1708-1720
The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: 1708-1720

Author: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Publisher:

Published: 1967

Total Pages: 524

ISBN-13:

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The 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.

Letters
Letters

Author: Mary Wortley Montagu

Publisher: Everyman's Library

Published: 2015-04-01

Total Pages: 467

ISBN-13: 0375712860

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Immensely 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)

Dear First Lady
Dear First Lady

Author: Dwight Young

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9781426200878

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Collects 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.