AU$15.00

ISBN: 978-0-140-57026-7

Publisher: Penguin Books - 1986

Synopsis: Besides presenting a vivid picture of manners in a picturesque age, Lady Montagu's letters 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.

Condition: Some shelf wear on the exterior of the paperback; Notes on the first page; The rest of the pages are clean and in very good condition;