Word: wortley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...felt for women. In Pope's case, it did not prevent him from trying to play the rake at large in London, though with scant success. Quennell notes that his sexual adventures were "of a mercenary and transient kind," and that his platonic pursuit of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, the one real love of his life, ended unhappily...
...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...
...took refuge in a life of fantasy-she liked to run across the fields in the evening, trying to catch the setting sun. At 19, she had produced several albums of verse and a "handsome bosom" that disputed for attention with dark smoldering eyes. At 24, she married Edward Wortley, coldly handsome grandson of the Earl of Sandwich, who seemed more interested in money than in Mary. Even so, she wrote him hearty letters of political encouragement: "The Ministry is like a play at Court; there's a little door to get in, and a great Croud without, shoveing...
...Wortley was named ambassador to the court of the Sultan. In her celebrated "embassy letters" from Turkey, Lady Mary wrote about everything from royalty to rest rooms, and was particularly happy to find that the custom of the veils reduced "danger of Discovery" and made "the number of faithfull wives very small...