See also:

• LADY (0. Eng. hlaefdige, Mid. Eng. ldfdi, lavedi; the first part of the word is hldf, loaf, bread, as in the corresponding hldford, lord; the second part is usually taken to be from the root dig-, to knead, seen also in " dough "; the sense development fr

LADY See also:

• MARY
• MARY (1457-1482)
• MARY (1496-1533)
• MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS

MARY WORTLEY See also:

• MONTAGU (Family)
• MONTAGU (or MOUNTAGUE), RICHARD (1577-1641)
• MONTAGU, ELIZABETH ROBINSON (1720-1800)
• LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU (1689–1762)
• MONTAGU, RALPH, 1ST DUKE OF (c. 1638-1709)

MONTAGU (1689–1762)  , See also:

• ENGLISH

English See also:

• LETTER (through Fr. lettre from Lat. littera or litera, letter of the alphabet; the origin of the Latin word is obscure; it has probably no connexion with the root of linere, to smear, i.e. with wax, for an inscription with a stilus)

letter-writer, eldest daughter of See also:

• EVELYN, JOHN (1620-1706)

Evelyn See also:

• PIERREPONT, WILLIAM (c. 1607-1678)

Pierrepont, afterwards See also:

• DUKE (corresponding to Fr. duc, Ital. duca, Ger. Herzog)

duke of See also:

• KINGSTON
• KINGSTON, ELIZABETH, DUCHESS OF (1720-1788)
• KINGSTON, WILLIAM HENRY GILES (1814-188o)

Kingston, was baptized at Covent See also:

• GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)

Garden on the 26th of May 1689 . Her See also:

• MOTHER

mother, who died while her daughter was still a See also:

• CHILD
• CHILD, FRANCIS JAMES (1825-1896)
• CHILD, L
• CHILD, LYDIA MARIA (1802-1880)
• CHILD, SIR FRANCIS (1642-1713)
• CHILD, SIR JOHN (d. 1690)
• CHILD, SIR JOSIAH (163o - 1699)

child, was a daughter of See also:

• WILLIAM
• WILLIAM (1143-1214)
• WILLIAM (1227-1256)
• WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
• WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
• WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
• WILLIAM, 13TH

William Feilding, See also:

• EARL

earl of See also:

• DENBIGH (Dinbych)
• DENBIGH, WILLIAM FEILDING, 1ST EARL

Denbigh . Her See also:

• FATHER

father was proud of her beauty and wit, and when she was eight years old she is said to have been the See also:

• TOAST

toast of the See also:

• KIT (1) (probably an adaptation of the Middle Dutch kitie, a wooden tub, usually with a lid and handles; in modern Dutch kit means a tankard)

Kit-Kat See also:

• CLUB (connected with " clump ")

Club . He took small pains with the See also:

• EDUCATION

education of his See also:

• CHILDREN, LAW RELATING TO

children, but See also:

• LADY (0. Eng. hlaefdige, Mid. Eng. ldfdi, lavedi; the first part of the word is hldf, loaf, bread, as in the corresponding hldford, lord; the second part is usually taken to be from the root dig-, to knead, seen also in " dough "; the sense development fr

Lady See also:

• MARY
• MARY (1457-1482)
• MARY (1496-1533)
• MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS

Mary was encouraged in her self-imposed studies by her See also:

• UNCLE

uncle, William Feilding, and by See also:

• BISHOP (A.S. bisceop, from Lat. episcopus, Gr. irio-Korros, " overlooker " or " overseer ")
• BISHOP, ISABELLA (1832-1904)
• BISHOP, SIR HENRY ROWLEY (1786-1855)

Bishop See also:

• BURNET
• BURNET, GILBERT (1643-1715)
• BURNET, THOMAS (1635-1715)

Burnet . She formed a See also:

• CLOSE
• CLOSE (from Lat. clausum, shut)
• CLOSE, MAXWELL HENRY (1822-1903)

close friendship with Mary See also:

• ASTELL, MARY (1668-1731)

Astell, who was a See also:

• CHAMPION (Fr. champion, Late Lat. campio from campus; a field or open space, i.e. one " who takes the field " or fights; cf. Ger. Kampf, battle, and Kampfer, fighter)

champion of woman's rights, and with See also:

• ANNE (1665-1714)
• ANNE (1693-1740)

Anne Wortley See also:

• MONTAGU (Family)
• MONTAGU (or MOUNTAGUE), RICHARD (1577-1641)
• MONTAGU, ELIZABETH ROBINSON (1720-1800)
• MONTAGU, LADY MARY WORTLEY (1689–1762)
• MONTAGU, RALPH, 1ST DUKE OF (c. 1638-1709)

Montagu., See also:

• GRAND

grand-daughter of the first earl of See also:

• SANDWICH
• SANDWICH, EDWARD MONTAGU, or MOUNTAGU, 1ST EARL OF (1625–1672)
• SANDWICH, JOHN MONTAGU, 4TH EARL OF (1718–1792)

Sandwich . With this lady she carried on an animated See also:

• CORRESPONDENCE
• CORRESPONDENCE (from med. scholastic Lat. correspondentia, corrcspondere, compounded of Lat. cum, with, and respond ere, to answer; cf. Fr. correspondance)

correspondence . The letters on Anne's See also:

• SIDE
• SIDE (mod. Eski Adalia)

side, however, were often copied from drafts written by her See also:

• BROTHER

brother, See also:

• EDWARD

Edward Wortley Montagu, and after Anne's See also:

• DEATH

death in 1709 the correspondence between him and Lady Mary was prosecuted without an intermediary . Lady Mary's father, now See also:

• MARQUESS (1760-1842)
• MARQUESS, or MARQUIS (Fr. marquis, Ital. marchese; from med. Lat. marchio, marchisus, i.e. comes marchiae, " count of the March ")

marquess of See also:

• DORCHESTER
• DORCHESTER, DUDLEY CARLETON, VISCOUNT (1573-1632)
• DORCHESTER, GUY CARLETON

Dorchester, declined, however, to accept Montagu as a son-in-See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law because he refused to See also:

• ENTAIL (from Fr. tailler, to cut; the old derivation from tales haeredes is now abandoned)

entail his See also:

• ESTATE (through O. Fr. estat, mod. flat, from Lat. status, state, condition, position, stare, to stand)

estate on a possible See also:

• HEIR (Lat. heres, from a root meaning to grasp, seen in heres or erus, master of a house, Gr. xeip, hand, Sans. hat ana, hand)

heir . Negotiations were broken off, and when the marquess insisted on another See also:

• MARRIAGE

marriage for his daughter the pair eloped (1712) . The See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early years of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's married See also:

• LIFE

life were spent in rigid See also:

• ECONOMY

economy and retirement in the See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country . Her See also:

• HUSBAND

husband was M.P. for See also:

• WESTMINSTER
• WESTMINSTER, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
• WESTMINSTER, STATUTES OF
• WESTMINSTER, SYNODS OF

Westminster in 1715, and shortly afterwards was made a See also:

• COMMISSIONER

commissioner of the See also:

• TREASURY

treasury . When Lady Mary joined him in See also:

• LONDON

London her wit and beauty soon made her a prominent figure at See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

court .

Early in 1716 Montagu was appointed See also:

• AMBASSADOR (also EMBASSADOR, the form sometimes still used in America; from the Fr. ambassadeur, with which compare Ital. ambasciatore and Span. embajador, all variants of the Med. Lat. ambassiator, ambassiator, ambasator, &c., derived from Med. Lat. amba

ambassador at See also:

• CONSTANTINOPLE
• CONSTANTINOPLE, COUNCILS OF

Constantinople . Lady Mary accompanied him to See also:

• VIENNA (Ger. Wien; Lat. Vindobona)
• VIENNA, CONGRESS OF (1814-1815)

Vienna, and thence to See also:

• ADRIANOPLE
• ADRIANOPLE (anc. Hadrianopolis; Turk. Edirne, or Edreneh; Slay. Odrin)

Adrianople and Constantinople . He was recalled in 1717, but they remained at Constantinople until 1718 . The See also:

• STORY, JOHN (c. 1510-1571)
• STORY, JOSEPH (1779-1845)
• STORY, ROBERT HERBERT (1835-1907)
• STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE (1819—1895)

story of this voyage and of her observations of Eastern life is told in a See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of lively letters full of graphic description . From See also:

• TURKEY

Turkey she brought back the practice of inoculation for small-pox . She had her own children inoculated, and encountered a vast amount of See also:

• PREJUDICE (Lat. praejudicium)

prejudice in bringing the See also:

• MATTER

matter forward . Before starting for the See also:

• EAST
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

East she had made the acquaintance of See also:

• ALEXANDER
• ALEXANDER (1461-1506)
• ALEXANDER (ALEXANDER OF BATTENBERG) (1857-1893)
• ALEXANDER (ALEXANDER OsxENOVici) (1876-1903)
• ALEXANDER, ARCHIBALD (1772—1851)
• ALEXANDER, FRANCIS (1800—1881)
• ALEXANDER, GEORGE (1858— )
• ALEXANDER, JOHN WHITE (1856- )
• ALEXANDER, JOSEPH ADDISON (18o9—186o)
• ALEXANDER, SIR JAMES EDWARD (1803—1885)
• ALEXANDER, WILLIAM (1824— )
• ALEXANDER, WILLIAM LINDSAY (1808—1884)

Alexander See also:

• POPE (Gr. irarraas, post-classical Lat. papa, father)
• POPE, ALEXANDER (1688–1744)
• POPE, ALEXANDER (1763-1835)
• POPE, JANE (1742-1818)
• POPE, JOHN (1822-1892)
• POPE, SIR THOMAS (c. 1507-1559)

Pope, and during her See also:

• ABSENCE (Lat. absentia)

absence he addressed to her a series of extravagant letters, which appear to have been chiefly exercises in the See also:

• ART

art of See also:

• WRITING
• WRITING (the verbal noun of " to write," O. Eng. writan, to inscribe)

writing gallant epistles . Very few letters passed after Lady Mary's return, and various reasons have been suggested for the subsequent estrangement and violent See also:

• QUARREL

quarrel . Mr Moy See also:

• THOMAS
• THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
• THOMAS (d. 110o)
• THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
• THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
• THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
• THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
• THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
• THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
• THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
• THOMAS, ST
• THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
• THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)

Thomas suggests that the cause is to be found in the last of the " Letters during the See also:

• EMBASSY

embassy to Constantinople." It is addressed to Pope and purports to be dated from See also:

• DOVER
• DOVER, GEORGE JAMES WELBORE
• DOVER, HENRY JERMYN, EARL OF (c. 1636-1708)
• DOVER, ROBERT (1575-1641)

Dover, the 1st of See also:

• NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November 1718 . It contains a See also:

• PARODY (Gr. s-apybia, literally a song sung beside, a comic parallel)

parody on Pope's " See also:

• EPITAPH (Gr. it oa¢cos, sc. X/yos, from bri, upon, and ra¢os, a tomb)

Epitaph on the Lovers struck by See also:

• LIGHTNING

Lightning." The MS. collection of these letters was passed See also:

• ROUND (O. Fr. rond, Lat. rotundus, the Fr. is the source also of Du. rond; Ger., Swed., Dan. and Nor. rond)

round a considerable circle, and Pope may well have been offended at the circulation of this piece of See also:

• SATIRE (Lat. satira, satura; see below)

satire . See also:

• JEALOUSY (adapted from Fr. jalousie, formed from jaloux, jealous, Low Lat. zelosus, Gr. j'i os, ardour, zeal, from the root seen in '&u', to boil, ferment; cf. " yeast ")

Jealousy of her friendship with See also:

• LORD
• LORD (O. Eng. hldford, i.e. hldfweard, the warder or keeper of bread, hlIf, loaf; the word is not represented in any other Teutonic language)
• LORD, JOHN (1810-1894)

Lord See also:

• HERVEY, JAMES (1714–1758)

Hervey has also been alleged, but Lady Louisa See also:

• STUART, ARABELLA (1575-1615)
• STUART, GILBERT (1755-x828)
• STUART, JAMES EWELL BROWN (1833-1864)
• STUART, JOHN
• STUART, MOSES (1780-1852)
• STUART, SIR JOHN, COUNT

Stuart says Pope had made Lady Mary a See also:

• DECLARATION (from Lat. declarare, to make fully clear, clams)

declaration of love, which she had received with an outburst of See also:

• LAUGHTER

laughter . In any See also:

• CASE
• CASE, JOHN (d. 1600)

case Lady Mary always professed See also:

• COMPLETE

complete innocence of all cause of offence in public .

She is alluded to in the Dunciad in a passage to which Pope affixed one of his insulting notes . A Pop upon Pope was generally supposed to be from her See also:

• PEN (Lat. penna, a feather, pen)

pen, and Pope thought she was See also:

• PART

part author of One See also:

• EPISTLE

Epistle to Mr A . Pope (1730) . Pope attacked her again and again, but with especial virulence in a See also:

• GROSS

gross See also:

• COUPLET

couplet in the " See also:

• IMITATION (Lat. imitatio, from intitari, to imitate)

Imitation of the First Satire of the Second See also:

• BOOK

Book of See also:

• HORACE [QuINTus HORATIUS FLACCUS] (65-8 B.C.)

Horace," as See also:

• SAPPHO (7th–6th centuries B.C.)

Sappho . She asked a third See also:

• PERSON, OFFENCES AGAINST THE

person to remonstrate, and received the obvious See also:

• ANSWER (derived from and, against, and the same root as swear)

answer that Pope could not have foreseen that she or any one else would apply so See also:

• BASE

base an insult to herself . Verses addressed to an Imitator of Horace by a Lady (1733), a scurrilous reply to these attacks, is generally attributed to the See also:

• JOINT (through Fr. from Lat. junctum, jungere, to join)

joint efforts of Lady Mary and her sworn ally, Lord Hervey . She had a romantic correspondence with a Frenchman named Remond, who addressed to her .a series of excessively gallant letters before ever seeing her . She invested See also:

• MONEY

money for him in See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

South See also:

• SEA (in O. Eng. sae, a common Teutonic word; cf. Ger. See, Dutch Zee, &c.; the ultimate source is uncertain)
• SEA, COMMAND OF THE

Sea stock at his See also:

• DESIRE

desire, and as was expressly stated, at his own See also:

• RISK

risk . The value See also:

• FELL
• FELL, JOHN (1625-1686)

fell to See also:

• HALF

half the See also:

• PRICE
• PRICE, BARTHOLOMEW (1818–1898)
• PRICE, BONAMY (1807-1888)
• PRICE, RICHARD (1723-1791)

price, and he tried to extort the See also:

• ORIGINAL

original sum as a See also:

• DEBT (Lat. debitum, a thing owed)

debt by a See also:

• THREAT

threat of exposing the correspondence to her husband . She seems to have been really alarmed, not at the imputation of gallantry, but lest her husband should discover the extent of her own speculations . This disposes of the second half of Pope's See also:

• LINE

line " Who starves a See also:

• SISTER

sister, or forswears a debt " (See also:

• EPILOGUE

Epilogue to the Satires, i . 113), and the first See also:

• CHARGE
• CHARGE (through the Fr. from the Late Lat. carricare, to load in a carrus or wagon; cf. " cargo ")

charge is quite devoid of See also:

• FOUNDATION (Lat. fundatio, from fundare, to found)

foundation .

She did in fact try to See also:

• RESCUE (in Middle Eng. rescous, from O. Fr. recousse, Low Lat. rescussa, from reexcussa,reexcutere, to shake off again, re, again, ex, off, quatere, to shake)

rescue her favourite sister, the countess of See also:

• MAR, EARLDOM OF
• MAR, JOHN ERSKINE, 1ST OR 6TH EARL OF (d. 1572)
• MAR, JOHN ERSKINE, 2ND OR 7TH EARL
• MAR, JOHN ERSKINE, 6TH OR 11TH EARL OF (1675-1732)

Mar, who was mentally deranged, from the custody of her brother-in-law, Lord See also:

• GRANGE (through the A.-Fr. graunge, from the Med. Lat. granea, a place for storing grain, granum)

Grange, who had treated his own wife with notorious See also:

• CRUELTY (through the O. Fr. crualte, mod. cruaute, from the Lat. crudelitas)

cruelty, and the See also:

• SLANDER

slander originated with him . In 1939 she went abroad, and although she continued to write to her husband in terms of See also:

• AFFECTION (Lat. ad, and facere, to do something to, sc. a person)

affection and respect they never met again . At See also:

• FLORENCE
• FLORENCE (Ital. Firenze, Lat. Florentia)

Florence in 1740 she visited Horace See also:

• WALPOLE, HORATIO
• WALPOLE, SIR SPENCER (1839-1907)

Walpole, who cherished a See also:

• GREAT

great spite against her, and exaggerated her eccentricities into a revolting slovenliness (see Letters, ed . See also:

• CUNNINGHAM, ALEXANDER (c.1655-173o)
• CUNNINGHAM, ALLAN (1784-1842)
• CUNNINGHAM, WILLIAM (1805-1861)

Cunningham, i . S9) . She lived at See also:

• AVIGNON

Avignon, at See also:

• BRESCIA
• BRESCIA (anc. Brixia)

Brescia, and at See also:

• LOVERE

Lovere, on the Lago d'See also:

• ISEO, LAKE OF (the Laois Sebinus of the Romans)

Iseo . She was disfigured by a painful skin disease, and her sufferings were so acute that she hints at the possibility of madness . She was struck with a terrible " See also:

• FIT

fit of sickness " while visiting the countess Palazzo and her son, and perhaps her See also:

• MENTAL

mental See also:

• CONDITION (Lat. condicio, from condicere, to agree upon, arrange; not connected with conditio, from condere, conditum, to put together)

condition made See also:

• RESTRAINT (from " to restrain," Lat. restringere, to hold back, prevent)

restraint necessary . As Lady Mary was then in her sixty-third See also:

• YEAR

year, the scandalous See also:

• INTERPRETATION (from Lat. interpretari, to expound, explain, inter pres, an agent, go-between, interpreter; inter, between, and the root pret-, possibly connected with that seen either in Greek 4 p4'ew, to speak, or irpa-rrecv, to do)

interpretation put on the matter by Horace Walpole may safely be discarded . Her husband spent his last years in hoarding money, and at his death in 1761 is said to have been a millionaire . His extreme See also:

• PARSIMONY, LAW OF (Lat. parsimonia, from parcere, to save)

parsimony is satirized in Pope's Imitations of Horace (2nd satire of the 2nd book) in the portrait of Avidieu and his wife . Her daughter Mary, countess of See also:

• BUTE
• BUTE, JOHN STUART, 3RD EARL OF (1713-1792)

Bute, whose husband was now See also:

• PRIME, PRIMER AND PRIMING

prime See also:

• MINISTER (Lat. minister, servant)

minister, begged her to return to See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England .

She came to London, and died in the year of her return, on the 21St of See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 1762 . Her son, EDWARD WORTLEY MONTAGU (1713-1776), author and traveller, inherited something of his mother's See also:

• GIFT (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. die Gift, gift, das Gift, poison, formed from the Teut. stem gab-, to give, cf. Dutch geven, Ger. geben; in O. Eng. the word appears with initial y, the guttural of later English is due to Scandinavian influence)

gift and more than her eccentricity . He twice ran away from See also:

• WINCHESTER
• WINCHESTER, EARLS AND MARQUESSES OF

Winchester School, and the second See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time made his way as far as See also:

• OPORTO (i.e. o Porto, " the port ")

Oporto . He was then sent to travel with a See also:

• TUTOR (Lat. tutor, guardian, tueri, to watch over, protect)

tutor in the See also:

• WEST
• WEST, BENJAMIN (1738-1820)
• WEST, NICHOLAS (1461-1533)

West Indies, and afterwards with a keeper to See also:

• HOLLAND
• HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
• HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
• HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
• HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
• HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
• HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
• HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
• HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
• HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART

Holland . He made, however, a serious study of Arabic at See also:

• LEIDEN

Leiden (1741), and returned twenty years later to prosecute his studies . His father made him a meagre See also:

• ALLOWANCE (from "allow,' derived through 0. Fr. alouer from the two Lat. origins adlaudare, to praise, and allocare, to assign a place; so that the English word combined the general idea of "assigning with approval")

allowance, and he was heavily encumbered with debt . He was M.P. for See also:

• HUNTINGDON
• HUNTINGDON, EARLS OF
• HUNTINGDON, SELINA HASTINGS, COUNTESS OF (1707—1791)

Huntingdon in 1747, and was one of the secretaries at the See also:

• CONFERENCE

conference of See also:

• AIX

Aix-la-Chapelle . In 1751 he was involved in a disreputable gaming quarrel in See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris, and was imprisoned for eleven days in the See also:

• CHATELET (from Med. Lat. castella)

Chatelet . He continued to sit in See also:

• PARLIAMENT (Anglo-Lat. parliamentum, Fr. parlement, from parler, to speak)

parliament, and wrote Reflections on the Rise and Fall of the Antient Republics . . . (1759) . His father See also:

• LEFT

left him an See also:

• ANNUITY (from Lat. annus, a year)

annuity of £1000, the bulk of the See also:

• PROPERTY

property going to Lady Bute .

He set out for extended travel in the East, and See also:

• GEORGE
• GEORGE, 8TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (1787-1876)
• GEORGE, HENRY (1839—1897)
• GEORGE, LAKE
• GEORGE, SAINT (d. 303)

George See also:

• ROMNEY (NEw ROMNEY)
• ROMNEY, GEORGE (1734-1802)
• ROMNEY, HENRY SIDNEY, EARL OF (1641-1704)

Romney describes him as living in the See also:

• TURKISH

Turkish manner at See also:

• VENICE
• VENICE (continued)
• VENICE (Venezia)

Venice . He had great gifts as a linguist, and was an excellent talker . His See also:

• FAMILY

family thought him mad, and his mother left him a See also:

• GUINEA

guinea, but her annuity devolved on him at her death . He died at See also:

• PADUA (Lat. Patavium ; Ital. Padova)

Padua on the 29th of See also:

• APRIL

April 1776 . Lady Mary's " See also:

• TOWN

Town Eclogues " were published in a pirated edition as Court Poems in 1716 . Of her famous Letters from the East she made a copy shortly after her return to England . She gave the MS. to BenjaminSowden, a clergyman of See also:

• ROTTERDAM

Rotterdam, in 1761 . After Lady Mary's death this was recovered by the earl of Bute, but meanwhile an unauthenticated edition, supposed to have been prepared by See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF

John See also:

• CLELAND, WILLIAM (1661?-1689)

Cleland, appeared (1763), and an additional See also:

• VOLUME

volume, probably See also:

• SPURIOUS

spurious, was printed in 1767 . The See also:

• REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest of the correspondence printed by Lord See also:

• WHARNCLIFFE, JAMES ARCHIBALD

Wharncliffe in the edition of her letters is edited from originals in the Wortley collection . This edition (1837) contained " See also:

• INTRODUCTORY

Introductory Anecdotes " by Lady Bute's daughter, Lady Louisa Stuart . A more See also:

• CRITICAL (in alphabetical order of authors)

critical edition of the See also:

• TEXT (Lat. textum, woven fabric, from texere, to weave)

text, with the " Anecdotes," and a " Memoir " by W . Moy Thomas, appeared in 1861 .

A selection of the letters arranged to give a continuous See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of her life, by Mr A . R . See also:

• ROPES, JOHN CODMAN (1836–1899)

Ropes, was published in 1892; and another by R . Brimley See also:

• JOHNSON, ANDREW
• JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
• JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
• JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
• JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
• JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
• JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
• JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
• JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
• JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
• JOHNSON, THOMAS

Johnson in " Everyman's Library " in 1906 . See also George Paston, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and her Times (1907), which contains some hitherto unpublished letters . Lady Mary's See also:

• JOURNAL
• JOURNAL (through Fr. from late Lat. diurnalis, daily)

journal was preserved by her daughter, Lady Bute, till shortly before her death, when she burnt it on the ground that it contained much See also:

• SCANDAL

scandal and satire, founded probably on insufficient See also:

• EVIDENCE (Lat. evidentia, evideri, to appear clearly)

evidence, about many distinguished persons . There is a full and amusing account of Edward Wortley Montagu in See also:

• NICHOLS, JOHN (1745–1826)

Nichols's Anecdotes of Literature, iv . 625-656 .