Person:Mary Pierrepont (1)

Lady Mary Pierrepont
b.26 May 1689
d.21 Aug 1762
Facts and Events
Name Lady Mary Pierrepont
Married Name Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Gender Female
Birth[1] 26 May 1689
Marriage to Sir Edward Wortley Montagu
Death[1] 21 Aug 1762
Reference Number? Q235121?


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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (née Pierrepont; 15 May 168921 August 1762) was an English aristocrat, writer, and poet. Born in 1689, Lady Mary spent her early life in England. In 1712, Lady Mary married Edward Wortley Montagu, who later served as the British ambassador to the Sublime Porte. Lady Mary joined her husband in the Ottoman excursion, where she was to spend the next two years of her life. During her time there, Lady Mary wrote extensively on her experience as a woman in Ottoman Istanbul. After her return to England, Lady Mary devoted her attention to the upbringing of her family before dying of cancer in 1762.

Lady Mary is today 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 describes as "the very first example of a secular work by a woman about the Muslim Orient". Aside from her writing, Mary is also known for introducing and advocating for smallpox inoculation to Britain after her return from Turkey.[1] Her writings address and challenge the hindering contemporary social attitudes towards women and their intellectual and social growth.

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References
  1. 1.0 1.1 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.