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Mar 31, 2021 · Three hundred years ago this month, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu got her daughter inoculated against smallpox with a technique that was unfamiliar to people in Britain at the time – making her ...
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. A painting of Mary Wortley Montagu by Jonathan Richardson the Younger. 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.
LAdy Mary Wortley Montagu was born in 1689 in London; her father was Evelyn Pierrepont, Earl of Kingston, a Yorkshire gentleman. She was the eldest child. Her mother, Lady Mary Fielding, died after bearing her fourth child, when Mary was still quite young.
Jan 26, 1996 · Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762): Smallpox Vaccination in Turkey In 1717 Lady Montague arrived with her husband, the British ambassador, at the court of the Ottoman Empire. She wrote voluminously of her travels.
Self-taught in her father's library, the writer, satirist and poet Lady Mary Wortley Montagu had an inexhaustible appetite for travel and society. This third edition of her Letters and Works (1866) offers insight into the ambitions and frustrations of one of the most unconventional women of the eighteenth century.
Created by Anniina Jokinen on September 7, 2006. Biography Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Eighteenth-century Woman of Letters. Site also contains Quotes, Biography, works, essays, and web resources.
Jan 1, 2017 · A sometime friend, sometime adversary of Alexander Pope, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu largely resisted publication, sharing her work privately and denying authorship of some of her poems that made their way into print. Nevertheless, today she is considered a prominent literary figure of the first half of the century. Tracing Lady Mary's publication in miscellanies over the course of the ...
