Lady Mary Wortely Montagu is writing to her daughter to help her understand how to take care of her granddaughter according to the society standards. Lady Mary has a formal tone even though she is including personal events from their lives she does it in a way which makes it seem professional. This letter should be considered private between the mother, daughter, and granddaughter because it is discussing the way the daughter is parenting the granddaughter. For example when my mom tells me something its usually between me and her because it might include information that people might not want to hear.

Lady Mary starts the letter of by the use of pathos to help draw the daughter in with complements on her abilities to parent her children. In the letter she states, “You have given me a great deal of satisfaction by your account of your eldest daughter.” Her daughter had brought her daughter up with the ability to become a great arithmetician. We are are given math courses because they help us reason better, even though there are many ways to solve a problem understanding it the hard way gives us  the ability for better critical thinking and helps us see situations in a different perspective.  She believes that her oldest daughter will look at problems through a different point of view and believes she is the work of her mother. At this point the daughter believes she is doing a great job at being a mother and her mother thinks that too, which makes it engaging for her so she keeps on reading on.

Lady Mary advice to the mother for her granddaughter was to read for two hours a day. In the letter it states, ” No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet.” She believes that by her reading two hours a day she will find it entertaining enough were she doesn’t care about the expensive cloth brands but will stay focused in learning more as time goes on.

In the end Lady Mary states,” I was not sorry to see you not determined on a single life, knowing it was not your father’s intention, and contented myself with endeavoring to make your home so easy that you might not be in haste to leave it.” She is admitting that is was her fault that she mad life to easy for her daughter and that her granddaughter should change to be better prepared for the real world. I think this was effective because she is taking parts of her life and comparing to the the daughters way of parenting. She is pointing out the mistakes she made to make her seem more credible which might allow her daughter to listen to her.