The Turkish Embassy Letters

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

240 Seiten

1994
Virago Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-85381-679-6 (ISBN)

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Lady Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) was described by a contemporary, as 'one of the most extraordary shining characters in the world...'. Her newly edited letters tell of her travels through Europe to Turkey in 1716.

The critical and biographical introduction tells of Lady Wortley Montagu's travels through Europe to Turkey in 1716, where her husband had been appointed Ambassador. Her lively letters offer insights into the paradoxical freedoms conferred on Muslim women by the veil, the value of experimental work by Turkish doctors on inoculation, and the beauty of Arab poetry and culture. The ability to study another culture according to its own values and to see herself through the eyes of others makes Lady Mary one of the most fascinating of early travel writers and commentators

In 1716, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's husband Edward Montagu was appointed British ambassador to the Sublime Porte of the Ottoman Empire. Montagu accompanied her husband to Turkey and wrote an extraordinary series of letters that recorded her experiences as a traveller and her impressions of Ottoman culture and society. Her connections with poets such as Pope, Congreve and Addison and with Whig politicians through her father and husband provide a fascinating base for the correspondence.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	27.1.1994
Reihe/Serie	Virago Modern Classics
Einführung	Anita Desai
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	196 x 126 mm
Gewicht	173 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher
	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Europa
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-85381-679-5 / 1853816795
ISBN-13	978-1-85381-679-6 / 9781853816796
Zustand	Neuware