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...
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and father of the writer and traveller Edward Wortley Montagu. Son of Sidney Wortley Montagu and grandson of Edward Montagu, 1st...
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Mary Stuart, Countess of Bute, 1st Baroness Mount Stuart (née Wortley Montagu; 19 January 1718 – 6 November 1794) was the wife of British nobleman John...
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diplomat and member of parliament Edward Wortley Montagu and the writer and traveller Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, whose talent and eccentricity he seems...
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Ilay. In August 1735, he eloped with Mary Wortley Montagu, whose parents Sir Edward and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu were slow to consent to the marriage...
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The Turkish Embassy Letters are a letter collection of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's reflections on her travels through the Ottoman Empire between 1716 and...
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Mary Montagu may refer to: Lady Mary Faith Montagu (1911–1983), daughter of the 9th Earl of Sandwich Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762), English writer...
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India Company stationed in China and another by Clopton Havers. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu observed smallpox inoculation during her stay in the Ottoman Empire...
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against smallpox was brought from Turkey to Britain in 1721 by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. The terms vaccine and vaccination are derived from Variolae vaccinae...
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Write a Poem Call'd the Lady's Dressing Room" is a poem by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu published in 1734. The poem is a satire and was written in response...
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Letters from Turkey (section Letters by Montagu)
tulip, from Turkish flora to Europe. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) was the wife of Edward Wortley Montagu, the British ambassador to Ottoman Empire...
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Variolation (section Lady Montagu)
Lady Mary Montagu, the wife of a British diplomat to the Ottoman Empire, said variolation was widely practiced in the Ottoman Empire. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu...
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practice was introduced to England by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Lady Montagu's husband, Edward Wortley Montagu, served as the British ambassador to the...
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James Stuart-Wortley (1833–1870). Hon. Cecily Susan Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie (1835 – 2 May 1915), married Henry Montagu-Scott, 1st Baron Montagu of Beaulieu...
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several people Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762), English aristocrat and writer Russell Wortley, Australian politician Stuart-Wortley, several people...
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wife Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, who four years later introduced the practice to England. An account from letter by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu to Sarah Chiswell...
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particular honour. We know by name some of those who were toasted: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu; Lady Godolphin, Lady Sunderland, Lady Bridgewater, and Lady Monthermer...
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and there was a wide readership among women in England. The writer Mary Wortley Montagu made her own translation of the Enchiridion in 1710 at the age of...
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son of prime minister John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, and his wife Mary Wortley Montagu. He was educated at Harrow School and Winchester College. He went...
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recorded usage of the term in English was found in a letter by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu dated 1718. The term appears in Italian in Giovanni Maria Muti's...
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'Japanese footwarmers' in the trenches. The 18th-century traveler Lady Mary Wortley Montagu describes the similar tendour in her Turkish Embassy Letters. Tajikistan...
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Stuart-Wortley was the son of Colonel James Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, son of John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute and his wife Mary Wortley-Montagu, Baroness...
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in keeping with being a great-granddaughter of the writer Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Art, religion, and philanthropy would feature prominently in her...
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"a sober eclogue between two of the people called Quakers"; and Mary Wortley Montagu began writing a further six Town Eclogues from 1715. In Scotland...
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Mary Astell, Elizabeth Thomas, Judith Drake, Elizabeth Elstob, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and John Norris. In her later years she published a volume of poetry...
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Earl of Wharncliffe (redirect from Richard Wortley, 5th Earl of Wharncliffe)
for Edward Montagu-Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, 3rd Baron Wharncliffe. He was a descendant of Edward Wortley Montagu (grandson of Edward Montagu, 1st Earl...
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star Lady Mary Faith Montagu (1911–1983), British aristocrat Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762), British aristocrat and writer Lily Montagu (1873–1963)...
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rejection in romantic relationships as reflected in this quote by the character Mary, "And now you have to go around checking all these different portals just...
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floriography craze was introduced to Europe by the Englishwoman Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762), who brought it to England in 1717, and Aubry de La Mottraye...
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changed the world, alongside Jesus Christ, Elvis Presley, and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Winfrey was the only living woman to make the list. Columnist Maureen...
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