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The Marriage Contract
Be Plain in Dress and Sober in your Diet;
In short my Dearee, kiss me, and be quiet.
In short my Dearee, kiss me, and be quiet.
Shortly After the Marriage
On Lord Lyttleton's 'Advice to a Lady': Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Lady Mary Wortley Montague (1689-1732), has been referred by one literary historian (Nicholas Sanders, Oxford Short History of English Literature) as "that great letter-writer, pioneer feminist and intellectual snob..."
Paintings by William Hogarth, from Marriage à-la-Mode, 1743-1745 (National Gallery, London):
The Marriage Contract
Shortly After the Marriage
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu with her son Edward Worthy Montagu, and attendants: Jean Baptise Vanmour, c. 1717 (National Portrait Gallery, London), image by Dcoetzee, 2009
Lady Mary Wortley Montague (1689-1732), has been referred by one literary historian (Nicholas Sanders, Oxford Short History of English Literature) as "that great letter-writer, pioneer feminist and intellectual snob..."
Paintings by William Hogarth, from Marriage à-la-Mode, 1743-1745 (National Gallery, London):
The Marriage Contract
Shortly After the Marriage
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu with her son Edward Worthy Montagu, and attendants: Jean Baptise Vanmour, c. 1717 (National Portrait Gallery, London), image by Dcoetzee, 2009