Product Description: 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...read more

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In 1716, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu travelled to Constantinople, where her husband was British Ambassador. During her sojourn there, she learned Turkish and explored the city, dressed in the traditional veils of Turkish women. The lively letters which she wrote to her numerous friends in London make up this book, together with those she wrote during her journey across Europe to Constantinople. Lady Mary admired Turkish women, whose daily lives at home and in the baths she describes with relish. She gained entry in disguise to the seraglio, and wrote about the liberating effects of the veil. She admired the Turkish practice of smallpox inoculation and on her return to England wrote persuasively on the subject. (view table of contents)

Product Description:  Immensely learned, self-educated in an era when formal schooling was denied to women, Mary Wortley Montagu was an admired poet, a consistently scandalous doyenne of eighteenth-century London society, and, in a period when letter-writing had been elevated to an art form, one of the greatest letter writers in the English language...read more

Product Description: A scholarly edition of letters by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.