Rev. of Lady Mary​ Wortley Montagu: Essays and Poems and Simplicity, A Comedy (original) (raw)

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Essays and Poems and Simplicity, A Comedy

1976

repond par des mots porteurs de musique et d'images. Non qu'elle crke pour nous un univers parallklc moins probldmatique que le n6tre. Pour elle, le pdtique est non pas un ailleurs mais une autre apprehension de la vie. Et si I'on trouve dans Entre l butil et& matik une tvocation du paradis, c'est celle d'un paradis perdu, celui de l'enfance, sous des cieux plus ddments : 0 mer des jours heureux forte insouciance de I'enfance dans mes malheurs tu Ctais lh (...l Loin de toi aujourd'hui je refroidis (U Amilcar w , p. 98) Ce qu'elle nous offre, c'est, comme elle le dit ailleurs, U un regard lucide sur la fragilitk des choses M. Ses textes ddnoncent le U cancer atomique w (titre d'un de ses pokmes), les horreurs de I'Histoire, I'usure de la culture dominate :

A New Manuscript Copy of a Poem by Queen Elizabeth: Text and Contexts

English Literary Renaissance

I n 1570, after the abortive Northern Rebellion, Queen Elizabeth wrote her powerful lyric, "The doubt of future foes," threatening capital punishment for future would-be rebels, most pointedly Mary, Queen of Scots, on whose behalf the northern forces fought and who was at the time under house arrest-put in this situation by Elizabeth after Mary's flight south from Scotland in 1568 to seek refuge in England. Fifteen years earlier, the situation was the mirror opposite. In 1554 in the wake of the failed Wyatt's Rebellion against her, the Catholic Queen Mary, who believed that the then Princess Elizabeth sanctioned this attempted coup, had Elizabeth confined at Woodstock Palace near Oxford. Wallace MacCaffrey has described the conditions under which Elizabeth was forced to live there: "she was lodged in a gate-house, a building in poor repair, where four rooms had been hastily fitted up for her use. Her keeper was Sir Henry Bedingfield.. .. Inexperienced in the court world, stolid, dull, and literal-minded, he took his responsibilities with great seriousness, nervously anxious to carry out his instructions. He was attended by a garrison recruited from his own servants and tenants.. .. [Elizabeth] was confined to the house, allowed to walk in the garden, in Bedingfield's company; there were to be no messages and no conferences with any person out of Bedingfield's hearing." 1 The Princess found these circumstances intolerable. MacCaffrey notes that "she accused [Bedingfield] 'in the most unpleasant sort that ever I saw her since her coming from the Tower' of preventing her communication with the Council." 2 We would like to thank Jaime Goodrich for her perceptive advice about this essay. 1.

Letters From and To Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Journal of Modern Turkish History Studies, 2017

Mary Wortley Montagu’s travel letters were written to some individuals such as Lady Mar, Alexander Pope, and Abbé Conti. Katharine Branning’s travel letters, on the other hand, have been written to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu but at the same time, the writer is addressing these letters to her family, friends, readers and also Turkish people. Branning, who has spent some thirty years in Turkey, is now explaining what has changed in the country so far and sharing her personal experiences. Thus, this article examines two memoirs of two women travel writers. The idea that these women travelogs had in mind was to be the voice of Turkish people; therefore, they both wrote about Turkey, its people and their way of life. So, this study will determine how Turkish women and Turkish way of life have been depicted by two western women, British and American. Moreover, there will also be some focus on the image of Turkish Women. The main intention is to discover whether there have been great changes in the Turkish way of life and the living conditions after Montagu’s memoir, The Turkish Embassy Letters.

Mary Wollstonecraft and the Accent of the Feminine by Ashley Tauchert

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