The Turkish Embassy Letters
1716-1718
$33.52
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
30 November 2021
Summary
Mary Montagu was one of the most extraordinary characters in the world. She was a self-educated intellectual, a free spirit, a radical, a feminist but also an entitled aristocrat and a society wit with powerful friends at court.
In 1716 she travelled across Europe to take up residence in Istanbul as the wife of the British ambassador. Her letters remain as fresh as the day they were penned: enchanted by her discoveries of the life of Turkish women behind the veil, by …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781780600390 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1780600399 |
| Author: | Mary Wortley Montagu |
| Publisher: | Eland Publishing Ltd |
| Imprint: | Eland Publishing Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 30 November 2021 |
| Weight: | 340g |
| Dimensions: | 140mm x 216mm |
| Series: | Eland classics |
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one of the best narrative travel books ever written by an Englishwoman. Dervla Murphy
Mary Wortley Montagu
Mary Wortley Montagu (née Pierrepont, 1689-1762) was an English aristocrat, writer, and poet. Born in 1689, she spent her early life in England. In 1712, she married Edward Wortley Montagu, who later served as the British ambassador to Turkey. Lady Mary joined her husband in Istanbul, where she spent the next two years of her life and wrote extensively about her Ottoman experiences.
Today, she is chiefly remembered for her letters from the Ottoman Empire, which Billie Melman described as ‘the very first example of a secular work by a woman about the Muslim Orient’. She is also known for introducing and advocating for smallpox inoculation in Britain after her return from Turkey.
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