Letters

by Mary Wortley Montagu

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,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1857151313
• ISBN13: 9781857151312
• Release Date: October 1992
• Publisher: Everyman
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.3" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Journey to the Ottoman Empire and 18th century England

I first read the letters from the embassy to Turkey in a course on Restoration & 18th century women authors; I loved the text, and I knew I would have to find a complete copy of her collected letters. To read Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's letters is to become closely acquainted with an intelligent, cultured, inquisitive and opinionated woman whose social circle included Alexander Pope and other worthies. Her insights into the wholly separate women's culture of the Ottoman Empire is fascinating, exposing a world unavailable to any male travelers to Turkey. As a narrator she is wonderfully descriptive without losing a shred of personality -- a personality which remains vivid across two and a half centuries.