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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (née Pierrepont; 15 May 1689 – 21 August 1762) was an English aristocrat, medical pioneer, writer, and poet. Born in 1689, Lady Mary spent her early life in England. In 1712, Lady Mary married Edward Wortley Montagu, who later served as the British ambassador to the Sublime Porte. Lady Mary joined her husband on the ...
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. 1689–1762. Best known as a letter writer, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu wrote verses all her life and frequently referred to herself as a "poet." From the young girl, as she later described herself, "trespassing" in Latin and Greek sources to the old woman haunted "by the Daemon of Poesie" (as quoted by Isobel Grundy in ...
Apr 3, 2024 · In 1712, she married Edward Wortley Montagu (1678-1761) after a long and indecisive courtship on his part, and a farcically inept elopement, worthy of an eighteenth-century comic novelist ( Henry Fielding was a cousin).
Jul 15, 2009 · The letters and works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. The present edition comprises the contents of the edition in three volumes published by Lord Wharncliffe in 1837, including the Introductory anecdotes...
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was the most colourful Englishwoman of her time and a brilliant and versatile writer. Her literary genius, like her personality, had many facets. She is principally remembered as a prolific letter writer in almost every epistolary style; she was also a distinguished minor.
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LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU (born Mary Pierrepont) (1689-1762) secured a reputation among her con-temporaries as a vivid, memorable presence and is now best known as the author of some of the liveliest and most engaging letters ever produced in English. When in 1741 a young English visitor had an opportunity to meet her in Rome, where she had ...
May 17, 2018 · The celebrated eighteenth-century poet Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 – 1762), merits a place in public health history for her early advocacy of the practice of smallpox inoculation, which was also called variolation, or ingrafting. Lady Mary, who herself survived smallpox in 1716, learned of the practice in Constantinople, where her husband ...
