Selected Poetry of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (ca. 1689-1762)
from Representative Poetry On-line
Prepared by members of the Department of English at the University of Toronto
from 1912 to the present and published by the University of Toronto Press from 1912 to 1967.
RPO Edited by Ian Lancashire
A UTEL (University of Toronto English Library) Edition
Published by the Web Development Group, Information Technology Services,
University of Toronto Libraries
© 2011, Ian Lancashire for the Department
of English, University of Toronto
Index to poems
Oh! was there a man (but where shall I find
Good sense and good nature so equally join'd?)
Would value his pleasure, contribute to mine;
(The Lover: A Ballad, 11-13)
- Constantinople
- The Dean’s Provocation for Writing the Dressing-Room
- Farewell to Bath
- The Lover: A Ballad
- Town Eclogues: Monday; Roxana or the Drawing-Room
- Town Eclogues: Saturday; The Small-Pox
- Town Eclogues: Thursday; the Bassette-Table
- Town Eclogues: Tuesday; St. James's Coffee-House
- Town Eclogues: Wednesday; The Tête à Tête
Biographical information
Given name: Lady Mary Wortley
Family name: Montagu
Birth date: ca. May 1689
Death date: 21 August 1762
Literary period: Augustan
Residences
London, England: 1689
Middlethorpe Hall near York, England: 1712 to 1715
Constantinople, Turkey: 1717 to 1718
Avignon, France: 1742
Brescia, near Venice: 1746 to 1756
Venice: 1756 to 1761
London: 1762 to 1762
Cause of death: breast cancer
Buried at: Vault, Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley Street, London
