Bøger af Mary Wortley Montagu

A selection of Lady Montagu's letters. Besides presenting a picture of manners in a picturesque age, they contain a series of impressions from foreign courts seldom visited.

Letters by the 18th century blue-stocking grande dame, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. She was a duke's daughter, who married the English ambassador in Constantinople, and the friend of Swift and Pope, whom she numbered among her correspondents.