Author: Wortley Montagu, Mary.
Title: The letters and works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Volume 2.
Description: Third edition, with additions and corrections derived from the original manuscripts, illustrative notes and a new memoir by W. Moy Thomas. London : Henry G. Bohn, 1866. Contemp. halfcloth binding. xvi,523 pp. With engraved frontispiece portrait of Edward Wortley Montagu. Some occas. foxing. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. - Part 2 of 2 of the collected letters and works of Emma, Lady Hamilton (1765-1815), She was an English model and actress, who is best remembered as the mistress of Lord Nelson and as the muse of the portrait artist George Romney. She was married to Sir William Hamilton, the British envoy in Naples. Emma had by then become not only a close personal friend of Queen Maria Carolina, sister of Marie Antoinette and wife of Ferdinand I of Naples, but had developed into an important political influence. She advised the Queen on how to react to the threats from the French Revolution.

Keywords: Womens's Studies,