Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762)
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https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/persinst/120172
- Name (English)
- Mary Wortley Montagu
- Short name
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
- Year of birth
- 1689
- Year of death
- 1762
- Short Description
- "Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (née Pierrepont; 15 May 1689 – 21 August 1762) was an English aristocrat, writer, and poet. Lady Mary is today chiefly remembered for her letters, particularly her letters from travels to the Ottoman Empire, as wife to the British ambassador to Turkey, which Billie Melman described as "the very first example of a secular work by a woman about the Muslim Orient". Aside from her writing, Lady Mary is also known for introducing and advocating for smallpox inoculation to Britain after her return from Turkey. Her writings address and challenge the hindering contemporary social attitudes towards women and their intellectual and social growth." - (en.wikipedia.org 08.06.2020)
- Entity Encoding
- piz
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