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Ranging over everything from gossip to politics, science to literature, they reveal very different aspects of her personality to her husband, sister and female circle, to her beloved daughter and her errant son. The famous Embassy Letters from Constantinople were designed for publication, yet most are vividly personal. Several letters in this volume have never before appeared in print (one full of exuberant chamber-pot humour and another mocking men as 'vile inconstant toads'). In this superb collection, Isobel Grundy has included examples from every significant correspondence so as to do full justice 'to Montagu the writer, thinker, and feminist, and to Lady Mary the friend and family member, the idealistic girl and sardonic old woman'.
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