Biographies

Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999, 680 p.

Considers Montagu's life as a series of struggles.

Halsband, Robert. The Life of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956, 313 p.

Offers a modern scholarly biography of Montagu.

Criticism

Campbell, Jill. "Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and the Historical Machinery of Female Identity." In History, Gender and Eighteenth-Century Literature, edited by Beth Fowkes Tobin, pp. 64-85. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1994.

Focuses on the Turkish Embassy Letters as a demonstration of Montagu's use of cultural difference to discuss feminine pleasure and desire.

Cooley, Emily. "Proto-Feminism and Ethnography in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Turkish Embassy Letters." Publications of the Mississippi Philological Association (2002): 8-15.

Critiques Montagu as an amateur anthropologist, including her attitude toward the otherness of foreign cultures.

Darby, Barbara. "Love, Chance, and the Arranged Marriage: Lady Mary Rewrites Marivaux." Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research...