TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2015//
TI  - Self-murder, female agency and manuscripts 'Mangle'd and Falsify'd': Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's '1736. Address'd to -' and the London magazine
JO  - Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies
A1  - Tung, S.F.
SP  - 115
EP  - 134
VL  - 38
IS  - 1
N2  - This article examines the effect of periodical formats on the reception history of eighteenth-century poetry by tracing the composition and coterie circulation of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's holograph manuscript '1736. Address'd To -', and its unauthorised publication in the June 1749 issue of The London Magazine under the revised title 'Verses on Self-Murder, address'd to - by A Lady'. The article argues that through misinterpretations of 'Address'd To -' as the product of disordered sensibility and as a result of editorial changes made by The London Magazine, Montagu's equivocal 'philosophical reflexion' on the Stoic afterlife is transformed into a sensationalised 'lady's' polemic defending suicide. © 2014 British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1754-0194
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.12162
ID  - ref1
ER  -