The Turkish Embassy Letters

By Mary Wortley Montagu

Book Overview

In 1716, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's husband Edward Montagu was appointed British ambassador to the Sublime Porte of the Ottoman Empire. Despite discouragement from friends that feared for her safety, she 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1554810426
• ISBN13: 9781554810420
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Broadview Press Inc
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Academic, but a good view of British Orientalist literature

I read this novel for a class in British Orientalist literature. It's a series of letters written by a woman who travels to the East. Read it in conjunction with _Arabian Nights_, _Vathek_, _Rasselas_, and some other Orientalist tales, and you can get some interesting insights in eighteenth century England and the exotic/erotic elements of the East.