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Article: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.(Review)(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- December 1, 1999
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1999 Contemporary Review Company Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Isobel Grundy. Oxford University Press. [pounds]30.00. 680 pages. ISBN 0-19-811289-00. Lady Mary Pierrepont was the daughter of the first Duke of Kingston and was born in 1689. She married Edward Wortley Montagu, M.P. and later Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire. Lady Mary went with her husband to Constantinople and returned as an advocate of inoculation for smallpox (from which she herself had suffered). This in itself is enough to guarantee her a place in the history books. She went on, however, to become a traveller and a writer in her own right. Her quarrel with Pope is still a legend in literary history ...
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