turkish embassy letters lady mary montagu

Summary: From Jacket insert: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu is one of the great eighteenth-century letter-writers. Volume 1: 1708-1720 - List of plates - Introduction to volume 1 - Letters 1708-1720 - Turkish embassy letters - Previous editions - Manuscript owners - Editorial principles - Short titles and other abbreviations - Index of correspondents and letters in Volume 1 - Letters 1708-1720 - Appendix 1: Translation of French correspondence - 2: Turkish verse in embassy letter - 3: Mary Astell's preface to the embassy letters - Volume 2: 1721-1751 - List of plates - Introduction to Volume 2 - Letters 1721-1751 - Previous editions - Manuscript owners - Short titles and other abbreviations - Index of correspondents and letters in Volume 2 - Letters 1721-1751 - Appendix: Translation of French correspondence - Volume 3: 1752-1762 - List of plates - Introduction to Volume 3 - Letters 1752-1762 - Previous editions - Manuscript owners - Acknowledgements - Short title and other abbreviations - Index of correspondents and letters in Volume 3 - Letters 1752-1762 - Appendix 1: Translation of French and Italian correspondence - 2: Additions and corrections - Index to Volume 1, 2, and 3.

Empire ottoman - Descriptions et voyages - 18e siècle.

Femmes - Empire ottoman - Conditions sociales - Histoire - 18e siècle.

Authors, English - 18th century - Correspondence.

Nobility - Great Britain - Correspondence.

Montagu, Mary Wortley, (1689-1762) - Correspondance.

Montagu, Mary Pierrepont Wortley, Lady, 1689-1762 - Correspondance.

Description: 3 volumes : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits 23 cm Content type:

Publication details: Oxford, England : Clarendon Press, 1965-67. Montagu, Mary Wortley, Lady, 1689-1762.This selection contains sixteen of Lady Mary's Turkish Embassy Letters, as they came to be known, addressed her sister, Lady Mar (letters 1-5, 8, 9, 13, and 16), to Lady Rich (letters 6, 12 and 14), and to Abate Conti (letters 7, 10, 11 and 15).The complete letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. 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. Download cover art Download CD case insert The Turkish Embassy Letters (selection)

Turkish embassy letters lady mary montagu