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Lady Mary Pierrepont was born on 15 May 1689 in at Holme Pierrepont Hall in Nottinghamshire. She was the oldest child to Evelyn Pierrepont and Mary Fielding.
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she had written two volumes of poetry, a short novel, and taught herself Latin. https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/features/who-was-lady-mary-wortley-montagu
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This was to avoid marriage to Skeffington. Whom her father was pressuring her to marry. Instead she married Edward Montagu at age 23
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"Montagu's first published writing appeared in Addison's Spectator in 1714, where she wrote under the pseudonym Lady President. Through her husband's close friendship with Joseph Addison, Montagu was introduced to other writers of her generation. In 1713 she wrote a critique of Addison's Cato; although her remarks were not published in her lifetime, Addison took them to heart, making several of the changes she recommended." https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/lady-mary-wortley-montagu
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In 1716 she contracted smallpox, she thankfully recovered but her only brother did not from this disease and sadly passed away
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First European woman to Travel to Turkey, the Ottoman Empire, where her husband became the ambassador to Constantinople.
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Discovering the new world of Turkey she noticed there was no scarring from the pox. She wrote this in a letter.. "I am going to tell you a thing, that will make you wish yourself here. The small-pox, so fatal, and so general amongst us, is here entirely harmless. . . . There is a set of old women, who make it their business to perform the operation..." this is where she witnessed inoculation "https://time.com/5542895/mary-montagu-smallpox/
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A letter from Montagu to Mr. Pope about her travels through Europe, specifically Hungary, Turkey, and smaller villages within that region.
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A letter regarding an invasion of the Turkish/ Ottoman empire, specifically of the region of the Greeks
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A letter regarding more specifically about the women of the Turkish empire, and those women that are found within the villages.
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A letter regarding the garments that the author has worn and is wearing, with very detailed accounts of what she is wearing.
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A letter regarding the illnesses that are rampant within the time, specifically small-pox.
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Lady Mary had the British Embassy’s surgeon inoculate her young son. He was the first English person to undergo the operation but this was done at the Embassy in Turkey
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A letter recounting a dinner party that the author attended within the Turkish empire, specifically with Greeks.
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Back home in 1721, while a global smallpox epidemic was killing people from Britain to Boston, Massachusetts, she had him inoculate her daughter (born in Turkey), and publicized the benefits of inoculation against bitter hostility, including physical violence." https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/features/who-was-lady-mary-wortley-montagu
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Montagu wrote letters intended to the Turkish, "The Turkish Embassy Letters", they went around as a letter book and her friend Mary Astell created a preface for this manuscript. These letters were published after her death.
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She started writing her own political periodical (a magazine or newspaper published at regular intervals) from 1737-1738.
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Lady Mary left her husband to live with an Italian Intellectual diplomat, this man was also having an affair with her good friend John Harvey.
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Lady Mary never returned to England until her husband passed and she became very ill. (powerpoint)
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Mary Montagu lived into her early 70's, passing due to cancer. All though she did not get much credit then, she had great achievements in both the literature world and medical. "As the scientist Francis Galton later put it, “In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.”
Nor, he might well have added, “to the Lady.”
https://time.com/5542895/mary-montagu-smallpox/