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A01=Mary Wortley Montagu
arabic culture
arabic poetry
Author_Mary Wortley Montagu
autobiography
biography
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classic letter collections
classic travel writing
collected letters
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lady mary wortley montagu
literary collection
literary letters
literary travel books
literary travel collections
literary travel writing
personal memoirs
poetry
the turkish embassy letters
travel biography
travel memoir
travel writing
turkey
virago
virago modern classics
vmc
womens travel writing
womens writing
Product details
- ISBN 9781853816796
- Weight: 163g
- Dimensions: 196 x 126mm
- Publication Date: 27 Jan 1994
- Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The critical and biographical introduction tells of Lady Wortley Montagu's travels through Europe to Turkey in 1716, where her husband had been appointed Ambassador. Her lively letters offer insights into the paradoxical freedoms conferred on Muslim women by the veil, the value of experimental work by Turkish doctors on inoculation, and the beauty of Arab poetry and culture. The ability to study another culture according to its own values and to see herself through the eyes of others makes Lady Mary one of the most fascinating of early travel writers and commentators
In 1716, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's husband Edward Montagu was appointed British ambassador to the Sublime Porte of the Ottoman Empire. Montagu accompanied her husband to Turkey and wrote an extraordinary series of letters that recorded her experiences as a traveller and her impressions of Ottoman culture and society. Her connections with poets such as Pope, Congreve and Addison and with Whig politicians through her father and husband provide a fascinating base for the correspondence.
