(source: http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/history/virtual/portrait/)

Biography

Halsband, Robert. 1956. The Life of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Oxford, Clarendon Press.
Grundy, Isobel. 1999. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment, Oxford University Press.

Online resources

Alexander Pope
Modern History Sourcebook: letter Lady Mary with respect to smallpox
Prose and Poetry of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library

Correspondence

Halsband, Robert (ed.). 1966. The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. 3 Vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Halsband, Robert. 1965. “Lady Mary Wortley Montagu as Letter-Writer”. Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 80, 155-163.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s language

Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid. 1985. “Do-Support in the Writings of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: A Change in Progress”. Folia Linguistica Historica, 6.127-151 .

Of further interest

Black, Jeremy. 1984. “Lady Mary Reports”. The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats, Philadelphia (Scriblerian), 17. 82.
Bohls, Elizabeth A. 1994. “Aesthetics and Orientalism in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s Letters”. Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 23. 179-205.
Carlisle-Schwartz, Kathryn. 1976. “The Rhetorical Resources of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu”. Dissertation Abstracts International 37, 2901A-02A.
Dobie, Madeleine. 1994. “Embodying Oriental Women: Representation and Voyeurism in Montesquieu, Montagu and Ingres”. Cincinnati Romance Review. 13. 51-60.
Drew, Elizabeth A. 1964. The Literature of Gossip: Nine English Letter Writers. New York, Toronto: Norton, McLeod.
Gardner, Kevin J. 1998. “The Aesthetics of Intimacy: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Her Readers”. Papers on Language and Literature. 34. 113-133.
Grundy, Isobel. 1993. “Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s ‘Italian Memoir’”. The Age of Johnson 6. 321-46.
Grundy. Isobel. 1994. “Books and the Woman: An Eighteenth-Century Owner and Her Libraries”. English Studies in Canada 20. 1-22.
Halsband, Robert. 1966. “Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Eighteenth-Century Fiction”. Phililogical Quarterly 45. 145-156.
Horwath, Peter. 1988. “Identifying Place Names in Hungary used by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu”. English Language Notes. 25. 36-39.
Kietzman, Mary-Jo. 1998. “Montagu’s Turkish Embassy Letters and Cultural Dislocation”. Studies in English Literature 38. 537-551.
Knipp, Charles C. 1974. “Types of Orientalism in Eighteenth-Century England”. Dissertation Abstracts International, Ann Arbor, MI, 35, 2944A-45A.
Mahaffey, Lois Kathleen. 1963. “Alexander Pope and His Sappho: Pope’s Relationship with Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Its Influence on His Work”. Dissertation Abstracts, Ann Arbor, MI, 24, 2480.
Meyer-Spacks, Patricia. 1983. “Borderlands: Letters and Gossip”. The Georgia Review. 37. 791-813.
Rubenstein, Jill. 1986. “Women’s Biography as a Family Affair: Lady Louisa Stuart’s ‘Biographical Anecdotes’ of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu”. Prose Studies. 9. 3-21.
Sherman, Sandra. 1995. “Instructing the ‘Empire of Beauty’: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and the Politics of Female Rationality”. South-Atlantic Review, Atanta; 60. 1-26.
Snyder, Elizabeth. 1997. “Female Heroism and Legal Discourse in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s ‘Epistle from Mrs. Y(onge) to Her Husband”. English Language Notes. 34. 10-22.
Wall, Cynthia. 1992. “Pope’s Correspondence with (and without) Lady Mary”. Philological Quarterly. 71. 221-237.

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