English Literature / Unit 11 ENL 1011 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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The idea
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, wife of the ambassador to Turkey, is chiefly remembered for her Turkish Embassy Letters, which use the East to criticize the constraints on European women. She introduced smallpox inoculation to Britain, and Pope, once her friend, later satirized her.
In practice
Letters from Turkey; inoculation.
Where people slip
Her contrasts turn travel into social critique.
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