Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (baptized 26 May 1689 – 21 August 1762) was an English letter writer and poet. She is famous for her letters about her travels to the Ottoman Empire. Her husband was the British ambassador to Turkey. She also introduced and encouraged smallpox inoculation to Britain.[1][2]
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Mary Wortley Montagu with her son Edward, by Jean-Baptiste van Mour
Mary Wortley Montagu, by Charles Jervas, after 1716
Memorial to the Rt. Hon. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu erected in Lichfield Cathedral by Henrietta Inge
Alexander Pope declared his love to Lady Mary, who responded with laughter.
Mary Wortley Montagu in 1739
Lady Montagu in Turkish Dress by Jean-Étienne Liotard, c. 1756, Palace on the Water in Warsaw
Mary Wortley Montagu in Turkish dress.
The title page of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, published in 1837
Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montague, 1800
References
- ↑ Melman, Billie. Women's Orients: English Women and the Middle East, 1718-1918. University of Michigan Press. 1992. Print.
- ↑ Flood, Alison (18 August 2016). "Rare letter by Mary Wortley Montagu, pioneering travel writer, up for sale". The Guardian.
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