Evidence: | 'I was very well pleased with having seen this entertainment [a marksmanship contest for the ladies of the Austrian court], and I do not know but it might make as good a figure as the prize-shooting in the Eneid, if I could write as well as Virgil.' |
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Date: | Between 1 Jan 1689 and 14 Sep 1716 | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 1689 |
Socio-economic group: | Royalty / aristocracy |
Occupation: | Daughter of the fifth Earl of Kingston upon Hull. Wife of the British ambassador to Constantinople. |
Religion: | Christian |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | unknown |
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: | Virgil |
Title: | Aeneid |
Genre: | Classics, Poetry |
Form of Text: | Unknown |
Publication details: | unknown |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 12536 | |
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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: | 70-71 | |
Additional comments: | Letter from Wortley Montagu to her sister, the Countess of Mar. Taken from the Kessinger Publishing Reprint of 1906 edition published by J.M.Dent. |
Citation: | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu, R. Brimley Johnson (ed.), Letters from the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 1709 to 1762 (London, 1906), p. 70-71, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=12536, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
Letter written whilst Wortley Montagu was in Vienna. |
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