Evidence: | 'Ten thousand thanks to you for Madame de Noyer's Letters; I wish Signor Roselli may be as diverting to you as [italics] she [italics]has been to me. The stories are very extraordinary, but I know not whether she has not added a few [italics] agremens [italics] of invention to them: however, there is some truth. I have been told, in particular, that the history of the fair unfortunate Madame de Barbesierre is so, by people who could not be suspected of romancing. Don't you think that the court of England would furnish stories as entertaining? Say nothing of my malice; but I cannot help wishing that Madame de Noyer would turn her thoughts a little that way. I fancy she would succeed better than the authoress of the "New Atalantis". I am sure I like her method much better, which has, I think, hit that difficult path between the gay and the severe, and is neither too loose, nor affected by pride.' |
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Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
Date: | Until: Sep 1709 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Thoresby county: Nottinghamshire |
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Reader: | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 1689 |
Socio-economic group: | Royalty / aristocracy |
Occupation: | Daughter of fifth Earl of Kingston upon Hull |
Religion: | Christian |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | nee Lady Mary Pierrepoint.Known by this name until her 1712 marriage to Edward Wortley Montagu. |
Author: | Delarivier Manley |
Title: | Secret memoirs and manners of several persons of quality of both sexes, from the new Atalantis, an island in the Mediterranean |
Genre: | Politics |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | 1709 |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 12285 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | |
Editor: | R. Brimley Johnson | |
Title: | Letters from the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 1709 to 1762 | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1906 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 2 | |
Additional comments: | Taken from the Kessinger Publishing Reprint |
Citation: | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu, R. Brimley Johnson (ed.), Letters from the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 1709 to 1762 (London, 1906), p. 2, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=12285, accessed: 19 April 2024 |
Lady Mary was reading the first part of the "New Atlantis", as is made clear in a later letter. |
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