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Letters by Mary Wortley Montagu
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Letters by the 18th century blue-stocking grande dame, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. She was a duke's daughter, who married the English ambassador in Constantinople, and the friend of Swift and Pope, whom she numbered among her correspondents.
Life on the Golden Horn by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Category: Travel | Series: Penguin Great Journeys
Travelling through the wartorn Balkans with her husband on what proved to be a wholly useless diplomatic mission to Constantinople, Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) left a vivid, informative, clever account of her adventures in the mysterious, sophisticated culture of Ottoman palaces, bathing places and ...Show more
The Turkish Embassy Letters by Mary Wortley Montagu
Category: History
In 1716 Mary Montagu traveled 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 Arabic poetry and by contemporary medical practices - ...Show more
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