They were praised by Voltaire, and the Scottish author Tobias Smollett opined that they were "never equaled by any letter-writer of any sex, age or nation". Their posthumous publication in 1763 presented to the public the first secular work written by a European woman about the Muslim Orient.
Lady Mary told the story of their voyage in a series of private letters full of vivid descriptions and unconventional commentary. In 1716, she accompanied her husband to Vienna, and thence to Adrianople (Edirne) and Constantinople, where he took up his post as the new British ambassador. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (née Pierrepont) was an English aristocrat and woman of letters. GradeSaver, 2 January 2020 Web.Download cover art Download CD case insert The Turkish Embassy Letters (selection) Next Section Character List Previous Section About The Turkish Embassy Letters How To Cite in MLA Format Pasha, ilyas, et al. Will review the submission and either publish your submission or provide feedback. You can help us out by revising, improving and updatingĪfter you claim a section you’ll have 24 hours to send in a draft. Ultimately, she joins briefly and then departs to visit a local cathedral. To end this letter, she tells a humorous tale about how the women urged her to join them in their baths. She describes the lovely baths of the Turkish women, whom she describes as being very friendly and graceful, and she was astonished by the beauty of the scene. She describes a Greek variation on this practice where they incise themselves on their foreheads or in the points of the sign of the cross across their torso-head, chest, and either shoulder.Īfter some description of Ottoman life, style and the aesthetics of Turkey, she describes a practice that seems unusual to her. This is the practice she describes-they lay small pox into an incision along a vein which they cut with a blade. She writes about the Small Pox in Turkey, and she tells of engrafting, an early inoculation practice which she describes. She is especially fond of the coffee and the silk. In her day, she learns about Eastern cuisine, and she writes of the goods from that region. We learn that the letters are sent with Reverend Benjamin Sowden who travels back and forth. As the wife of a dignitary, she sees many sides of the Ottoman Empire. In vivacious, academically aware prose, she writes about the world of the Ottomans. She writes back home to a friend in Britain. It is the stories of her time in Turkey, which at the time was called the Ottoman Empire. This letter was designed to be read by one of Lady Mary's personal friends.
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