"My imagination without wing or broom stick off mounts aloft, rises into ye Regions of pure space, and without lett or impediment bears me to your fireside, where you can set me in your easy chair, and we talk and reason, as angel Host and guest Aetherial should do, of high and important matters."
— Montagu [née Robinson], Elizabeth (1718-1800)
Work Title
Date
October 10, 1769
Metaphor
"My imagination without wing or broom stick off mounts aloft, rises into ye Regions of pure space, and without lett or impediment bears me to your fireside, where you can set me in your easy chair, and we talk and reason, as angel Host and guest Aetherial should do, of high and important matters."
Metaphor in Context
My imagination without wing or broom stick off mounts aloft, rises into ye Regions of pure space, and without lett or impediment bears me to your fireside, where you can set me in your easy chair, and we talk and reason, as angel Host and guest Aetherial should do, of high and important matters.
Provenance
Reading Jane Magrath, "'Rags of Mortality': Negotiating the Body in the Bluestocking Letters." Huntington Library Quarterly 65, no. 1/2 (2002): 235-56. <Link to JSTOR>
Citation
Letter from Montagu Collection in Huntington Library: MO 3258. Cited in Jane Magrath's "'Rags of Mortality': Negotiating the Body in the Bluestocking Letters," Huntington Library Quarterly 65, no. 1/2 (2002): 253.
Theme
Flights of Fancy
Date of Entry
07/01/2011
