Back ماري وورتلي مونتاغيو Arabic مارى وورتلى مونتاجيو ARZ Мери Монтагю Bulgarian Mary Wortley Montagu Catalan Mary Wortley Montagu Czech Mary Wortley Montagu Welsh Mary Wortley Montagu German Μαίρη Μόνταγκιου Greek Mary Montagu Spanish Mary Montagu Basque
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | |
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 A painting of Mary Wortley Montagu by Jonathan Richardson the Younger | |
| Born | Mary Pierrepont 15 May 1689 Holme Pierrepont Hall, Nottinghamshire, England |
| Died | 21 August 1762 (aged 73) London, England |
| Resting place | Grosvenor Chapel |
| Nationality | English |
| Occupation(s) | Aristocrat, writer, and poet |
| Known for | Introducing and advocating for smallpox inoculation to Britain |
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (née Pierrepont; 15 May 1689 – 21 August 1762) was an English aristocrat, medical pioneer, writer, and poet. Born in 1689, Lady Mary spent her early life in England. In 1712, Lady Mary married Edward Wortley Montagu, who later served as the British ambassador to the Sublime Porte. Lady Mary joined her husband on the Ottoman excursion, where she was to spend the next two years of her life. During her time there, Lady Mary wrote extensively on her experience as a woman in Ottoman Constantinople. After her return to England, Lady Mary devoted her attention to the upbringing of her family before dying of cancer in 1762.
Although having regularly socialised with the court of George I and George Augustus, Prince of Wales (later King George II) ,[1] Lady Mary is today chiefly remembered for her letters, particularly her Turkish Embassy Letters describing her travels to the Ottoman Empire, as wife to the British ambassador to Turkey, which Billie Melman describes as "the very first example of a secular work by a woman about the Muslim Orient".[2] Aside from her writing, Mary is also known for introducing and advocating smallpox inoculation in Britain after her return from Turkey.[3] Her writings address and challenge some contemporary social attitudes towards women and their intellectual and social growth at that time.
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