Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (Book order)

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Book order

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was an English aristocrat and writer, now chiefly remembered for her letters, particularly those from Turkey. These letters have been described as “the very first example of a secular work by a woman about the Muslim Orient.” Her writings offer a unique perspective on the culture and society of her time from a viewpoint that was unusual for the era.

Letters

616 pages
22 hours of reading

Immensely learned, self-educated in an era when formal schooling was denied to women, Mary Wortley Montagu was an admired poet, a consistently scandalous doyenne of eighteenth-century London society, and, in a period when letter-writing had been elevated to an art form, one of the greatest letter writers in the English language. Her epistles, meant for both public and private consumption, are the product of a mind distinguished by its adventurousness, its indifference to convention, and its eagerness not only to acquire knowledge but to convey it with unmitigated style and grace.

Letters

Briefe aus dem Orient