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a| eng
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a| Wortley Montagu, Mary
d| 1689-1762
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9| 6026
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a| Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M--y W--y M--e:
b| Written during her Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa
n| 1-2/2
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a| London
b| Cadell
c| 1789
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a| 2 vols. (xi-[ii]-220 + 272 pages)
b| engraved frontispiece
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a| printed
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a| 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.
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a| frontispiece portrait of the Author in vol.1
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a| Edition 1763 in 3 vols. Digitalisation vol.1: https://books.google.be/books?id=YkMVAAAAQAAJ
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a| Melman, Billie. Women's Orients: English Women and the Middle East, 1718–1918. University of Michigan Press. 1992. Print.
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a| To persons of distinction, Men of Letters, &c. in different Parts of Europe. Which contain among others accounts of the policy and manners of the Turks; Drawn from sources that have been inaccessible to other travelers? An new editidion to which are added Poems by the same author.
648
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a| 18th Century (1701-1800)
1| http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7015
9| 20899
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a| Music history
1| http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q846047
9| 21373
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a| Cuckoo
1| http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q18845
9| 22474
650
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a| Female
1| http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6581072
9| 21764
650
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a| Correspondence
1| http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1784733
9| 21392
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a| Travel
1| http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q61509
9| 4440
650
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a| Poetry
1| http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q482
9| 3026
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a| Europe
1| http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q46
9| 91
651
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a| Asia
1| http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q48
9| 23030
651
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a| Africa
9| 22253
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u| https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=evans;idno=N31507.0001.001
3| Modern transcription of c.1766 edition
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