
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Her Times
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217010108
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II ENGLAND IN 1709 LADY MARY'S published Correspondence begins about 1709, when she had just completed her twentieth year. Before dealing with her early letters it seems desirable to take a brief survey of the society in which she found herself. Her father, a prominent member of the Whig party, had been created Lord Dorchester in 1706, and also appointed one of the Commissioners for the Union with Scotland. Born in 1665, he was still in early middle-age, and is described by a contemporary as A very fine gentleman, of good sense, well-bred, and a lover of the ladies; is entirely in the interest of his country, makes a good figure, is of a black complexion, well-made, not forty years old. Lady Mary said in after years that he might have served as a model for the lively father of Sir Charles Grandison, and that he was too complete a man of fashion to be a very tender or considerate parent. Like most fathers of that day, he seems to have regarded his children as chattels, to be kept in strict subjection to his will, and to be disposed of to the best advantage from a worldly point of view. The mixed Government of 1706 had become a Whig Government by 1708, much against the wishes of Anne. The reign of the Whigs was short though glorious, since the year 1710 was to see the fall of Godolphin, and the return of the Tories to power, with Harley at their head. Marlborough, not yet hampered by an economical Tory Cabinet, was still astride his whirlwind, though he was unable always to direct the storm, since his victory of Malplacquet in the autumn of this year was little less disastrous than adefeat. The Queen and Duchess Sarah were still Mrs. Morley and Mrs. Freeman, but the relations between them were becoming strained, owing to Mrs. Freeman's habit of speaking ...
ISBN-13 | 9780217010108 |
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ISBN-10 | 0217010105 |
Weight | 1.51 Pounds |
Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.04 In |
List Price | $27.83 |
Format | Paperback |
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Pages | 468 pages |
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Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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