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...COMPLETE LETTERS OF LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGUE, VOLUME I (1708-1720), collected and edited by Robert Halsband. A beauty, a wit, an essayist admired by Addison, a satirist who rivaled Pope, Lady Mary was also acclaimed the greatest of the great letter writers of the 18th century...
...COMPLETE LETTERS OF LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGUE, VOLUME I (1708-1720), collected and edited by Robert Halsband. A beauty, a wit, an essayist admired by Addison, a satirist who rivaled Pope, Lady Mary was also acclaimed the greatest of the great letter writers of the 18th century...
...COMPLETE LETTERS OF LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGUE, VOLUME I (1708-1720), collected and edited by Robert Halsband. 468 pages. Oxford...
Lady Mary's Letters, last published in 1861 and then only in a scantling collection of 470, have now been assembled by Columbia's Robert Halsband in three handsome volumes (one published now and the other two within the year). They contain some 900 items-every line of authenticated correspondence. In collective effect they startlingly enlarge the human interest as well as the literary stature of this 'haughty soul to woman join'd"-an androgyne of genius who was born with a man's mind in a woman's body and could never reconcile...
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