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Book by Montagu Lady Mary Wortley
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...This new selection of her letters has charming pictures and notes, and proves again that for style, candor, narrative sense and reporter's eye she deserved the praise the first edition received from Smollet, Dr. Johnson and Voltaire...-Jane O'Reilly, New York Times Book Review. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) was born Lady Mary Pierrepont. She spent her childhood in the care of her paternal grandmother at West Dean Manor near Salisbury and later at her family seat of Thoresby Park in Nottinghamshire. She was a voracious reader and soon developed a strongly independent outlook. Her courtship by Edward Wortley Montagu evoked the disapproval of her father, which forced an elopement under dramatic circumstances. The marriage was not a success and later in life they separated. On their return from Constantinople, Lady Mary pioneered the smallpox innoculation in London that she had studied in Turkey. After her separation, she pursued to no avail a much younger Italian writer, and went to live in Venice. She died in London and her Embassy Letters were published a year later. Dervla Murphy was born in 1931 in County Waterford, where her father was County Librarian. Along with most of his family, her father was deeply involved in the Irish Republican Movement. Dervla Murphy was educated at the Ursuline Convent, Waterford, until 1945 when she returned home to nurse her invalid mother. She made her first historic bicycle journey to India in 1963, and has since undertaken many journeys with her daughter, Rachel; these have been the subject of many successful books. Dervla Murphy has long been an admirer of Lady Mary and her letters.
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- VerlagNew Amsterdam Books
- Erscheinungsdatum1998
- ISBN 10 0941533417
- ISBN 13 9780941533416
- EinbandTapa dura
- Anzahl der Seiten224
- HerausgeberPick Christopher
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Embassy to Constantinople: The Travels of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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New Amsterdam Books, New York, 1988
ISBN 10: 0941533417
ISBN 13: 9780941533416
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hardcover. Zustand: near fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: very good(+). Introduction by Dervla Murphy. Illustrated in color and in black and white. 224 page. Oblong 8vo, black cloth, d.w. (bumped at tail, minor edgewear). New York: New Amsterdam Books, (1988). Bumped at tail, otherwise fine. A near fine copy in a very good(+) dust wrapper. Artikel-Nr. 313227
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Embassy to Constantinople; The Travels of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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New Amsterdam Books, New York, 1988
ISBN 10: 0941533417
ISBN 13: 9780941533416
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hardcover. Zustand: very good(-). Zustand des Schutzumschlags: near fine. Introduction by Dervla Murphy. Edited & compiled by Christopher Pick. Illus., a few in color. 224pp. Oblong 8vo, black cloth, d.w., many top and bottom margins slightly wavy, otherwise very good. New York: New Amsterdam Books, (1988). Artikel-Nr. 282836
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