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    The Letters of Sarah Scott


    Editor: Nicole Pohl, Oxford Brookes University
    The Pickering Masters 2 Volume Set c.800pp: December 2013 978 1 84893 468 9: 234x156mm: 195/$350

    Sarah Robinson Scott (17211795) was a writer, translator and social reformer, and younger sister of Elizabeth Robinson Montagu (17181800), the famous Bluestocking patron. The letters Scott wrote to her sister reveal her to have been a witty, even savage, commentator on eighteenth-century life. Scott turns her observant eye on family and friends, fashionable Bath society, potential suitors, the vagaries of the postal service, modes of dress, events and political scandal. While Scotts letters provide us with a window on to her own experiences and expectations, they must also be interpreted within eighteenth-century context. Letters were often shared around and read by people other than the addressee. In this sense, they are semi-public documents and artefacts of cultural history, reflecting both the public and the private realm.

    Scott instructed her executor, Mary Arnold, to destroy her private papers after her death, but many of her letters remain. This is the first edition of Scotts letters to be published and presents all extant copies. All letters are newly transcribed and edited, and the edition is published in collaboration with the Huntington Library, where the letters are held. It will be of value to those researching all aspects of eighteenth-century literature and culture. Includes almost 400 letters, most of which were to Scotts sister, Elizabeth Robinson Montagu Designated an MLA Approved Edition Editorial apparatus includes a general introduction, four section introductions and explanatory notes A consolidated index appears in the second volume

    Sample pages can be found at: www.pickeringchatto.com/scott

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