Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M--y W--y M--e: Written during her Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa
- Type:
- boek
- Titel:
- Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M--y W--y M--e: Written during her Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa
- Jaar:
- 1789
- URL:
- https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=evans;idno=N31507.0001.001 Modern transcription of c.1766 edition
- Onderwerp:
- 18th Century (1701-1800)
Music history
Cuckoo
Female
Correspondence
Travel
Poetry
Europe
Asia
Africa - Taal:
- Engels
- Uitgever:
- London Cadell 1789
- Plaatsnummer:
- ORPH.KTS1 C1.62 06P11_01 (Orpheus Instituut)ORPH.KTS1 C1.62 06P11_02 (Orpheus Instituut)
- Paginering:
- 2 vols. (xi-[ii]-220 + 272 pages) engraved frontispiece
- Nota:
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (née Pierrepont, 1689-1762) was an English aristocrat, writer, and poet. She is chiefly remembered for her letters, particularly her Turkish Embassy Letters describing her travels to the Ottoman Empire, as wife to the British ambassador to Turkey, which Billie Melman described as "the very first example of a secular work by a woman about the Muslim Orient". Her writings address and challenge the hindering contemporary social attitudes towards women and their intellectual and social growth. She had a very special life-story and was often portrayed, as evidenced by the many paintings there are of her.
frontispiece portrait of the Author in vol.1
Edition 1763 in 3 vols. Digitalisation vol.1: https://books.google.be/books?id=YkMVAAAAQAAJ - Permalink:
- https://www.cageweb.be/catalog/orp01:000001398