Letters

by Mary Wortley Montagu

Book Overview

Explore the captivating travels and insightful observations of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu through her personal letters.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1857151313
• ISBN13: 9781857151312
• Release Date: October 1992
• Publisher: Everyman
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.3" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Journey to the Ottoman Empire and 18th century England

I first read the letters from the embassy to Turkey in a course on Restoration & 18th century women authors; I loved the text, and I knew I would have to find a complete copy of her collected letters. To read Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's letters is to become closely acquainted with an intelligent, cultured, inquisitive and opinionated woman whose social circle included Alexander Pope and other worthies. Her insights into the wholly separate women's culture of the Ottoman Empire is fascinating, exposing a world unavailable to any male travelers to Turkey. As a narrator she is wonderfully descriptive without losing a shred of personality -- a personality which remains vivid across two and a half centuries.