{"product_id":"essays-and-poems-and-simplicity-a-comedy","title":"Essays and Poems and 'Simplicity', a Comedy","description":"Despite being an aristocrat and a woman, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762) made herself a writer. Lady Mary has long been well-known as a `character' a letter writer, and a traveller, this revised paperback edition of her non-epistolary writings appears at a time when interest in her literary work is now widespread and serious. \n\nLady Mary saw herself as `haunted by the Daemon of Poesie'. She wrote literary criticism of Addison and the only essay by a woman published in the Spectator, together with spirited verse replies to Pope and Swift and passionate love-poems which dispute the period's label `Age of Reason'. Her essays (some published anonymously in newspapers) and poems (many of which appeared with her secret connivance) deal with issues still alive and accessible today: love, marriage, prejudice against women writers, the medical breakthrough of smallpox innoculation. Her comedy, Simplicity, has been recently revived in productions around the U.K. \n\nHard-hitting, eloquent and often funny, the work of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu will be essential reading for the growing number of scholars, students and general readers of women's writing.","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54229962817880,"sku":"9780198122883","price":71.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780198122883_687a2299-4685-4ecf-b8c9-234ceda3e1dd.jpg?v=1778535045","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/essays-and-poems-and-simplicity-a-comedy","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}