# Selected Letters

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- Book: [Selected Letters](https://www.bookquiver.com/mary-wortley-montagu/selected-letters) ([Selected Letters.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/mary-wortley-montagu/selected-letters.md))
- Authors: [Mary Wortley Montagu](https://www.bookquiver.com/mary-wortley-montagu)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4043-490-3
- Pages: 576
- Published: 2007-04-26
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A revised selection of Lady Montagu's letters. Besides presenting a vivid picture of manners in a picturesque age, they contain a unique series of impressions from foreign courts seldom visited and nowhere else so intimately described. Lady Mary was the wife of a popular ambassador and, wielding the charm of a strong personality, was enabled to see and hear many things of which the ordinary traveler, or resident abroad, knew-and knows-little or nothing. Originally written, for the most part, to her sisters, her daughter, or to very intimate friends, her Letters are unusually detailed and frank. She was a keen observer, not superior to the love of gossip with a quick eye for the telling features of a story or situation, and an easy, effective style.