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	Life of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.
		MONTAGU, LADY MARY WORTLEY, by birth Lady Mary Pierrepoint, was the eldest daughter of Evelyn earl of Kingston (afterwards marquis of Dorchester, finally duke of Kingston), by his wife the lady Mary Fielding, daughter of William earl of Denbigh, and was born at her father's seat of Thoresby in Nottinghamshire, about the year 1690.
		Wortley, who had been for some years in parliament, obtained a sear at the Treasury Board, of which his cousin Charles Montagu, earl of Halifax, had been appointed first commissioner; and from this time Lady Mary resided principally in London, where her wit and beauty immediately acquired her a brilliant reputation.
		Wortley Montagu was appointed ambassador to the Porte; and in August of that year he set out for Constantinople, accompanied by his wife.They remained abroad till October, 1718, and it was during this absence from her native country that Lady Mary addressed her sister, the countess of Mar, Mr.
	www.luminarium.org /eightlit/montagu/marybio.htm (869 words)

	MONTAGU, RICHARD - LoveToKnow Article on MONTAGU, RICHARD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The eldest son, Edward, was master of the horse to Queen Catherine, wife of Charles II., a post from which he is said to have been dismissed by the king for showing attention to the queen of too ardent a nature.
		Montagus position was further strengthened in 1705 by the marriage of his son and heir to Mary, daughter of the great duke of Marlborough.
		MONTAGU (or MOUNTAGTJE), RICHARD (1577-1641), English divine, was born at Dorney, Buckinghamshire, and educated at Eton and Cambridge.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MO/MONTAGU_RICHARD.htm (1560 words)

	LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU - LoveToKnow Article on LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		She formed a close friendship with Mary Astell, who was a champion of womans rights, and with Anne Wortley Montagu., granddaughter of the first earl of Sandwich.
		The letters on Annes side, however, were often copied from drafts written by her brother, Edward Wortley Montagu, and after Annes death in 1709 the correspondence between him and Lady Mary was prosecuted without an intermediary.
		The early years of Lady Mary Wortley Montagus married life were spent in rigid economy and retirement in the country.
	42.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MO/MONTAGU_LADY_MARY_WORTLEY.htm (1574 words)

	Montagu, Mary Wortley Criticism and Essays (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Montagu was the daughter of Evelyn Pierrepont, the fifth earl and first duke of Kingston.
		For instance, Montagu, in collaboration with Gay and Pope wrote a series of eclogues which satirizes the manners and immorality of the court of George I; three of them were stolen and published anonymously in 1716 by the notorious Edmund Curll as Court Poems.
		Montagu is considered a minor poet, but several critics have described her poetry as competent if not brilliant.
	www.enotes.com /poetry-criticism/montagu-mary-wortley (791 words)

	Nottinghamshire: history and archaeology \| The Scenery of Sherwood Forest: Thoresby (3)
		Wortley might be of his sister, he could have no particular motive to seek the acquaintance of her companions.
		In 1715 Edward Wortley Montagu was returned to Parliament as member for Westminster, and appointed a Commissioner of the Treasury by Lord Halifax, and Lady Mary, coming up at this time with him to the Court of George I., became a conspicuous figure among the ladies.
		Wortley Montagu in his will bequeathed to his son an annuity of a thousand a year, to be paid him during the joint lives of himself and his mother, Lady Mary; and after her death an annuity of two thousand a year during the joint lives of himself and his sister, Lady Bute.
	www.nottshistory.org.uk /rodgers1908/thoresby3.htm (2234 words)

	Mary Wortley Montagu, Lady Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Academically inclined, Montagu devoured the many volumes of classics and contemporary literature available to her as the daughter of a member of the landed gentry, and also taught herself several languages, including Latin, with the encouragement of an uncle and Bishop Burnet, a family friend.
		Edward Wortley Montagu, a Cambridge graduate who had been called to the bar in 1699, was at first impressed by Mary's ability to quote Roman poet Horace; as the couple's letter-writing continued, that respect ripened into love.
		Edward was elected to Parliament and, in the winter of 1716, with his young wife only recently recovered from a case of smallpox that had left her beautiful face permanently scarred, he was assigned to the task of ending hostilities between Turkey and Austria.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/mary-wortley-montagu-lady (1532 words)

	The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The 18th Century: Topic 4: Texts and Contexts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Indeed, Montagu's epistles were held up as models of lively letter-writing for much of the eighteenth century, and our modern sense of what constitutes an effective, entertaining personal letter has been guided by her epistolary style.
		Edward Montagu was also a representative of the London-based Levant Company, which traded in this region for items such as tulips, coffee, and silk.
		Edward Montagu's double appointment (which might represent a conflict of interest today) was made at a time when the Ottoman Empire's influence on trade and the movement of goods was extremely powerful.
	www.wwnorton.com /nto/18century/topic_4/montagu.htm (1629 words)

	Lady Mary Wortley Montagu at AllExperts
		She formed a close friendship with Mary Astell, a champion of women's rights, and with Anne Wortley Montagu, granddaughter of the 1st Earl of Sandwich.
		Anne's letters, however, were often copied from drafts written by her brother, Edward Wortley Montagu, and after Anne's death in 1709 the correspondence between Edward and Lady Mary continued without an intermediary.
		Early in 1716 Wortley Montagu was appointed Ambassador at Constantinople.
	en.allexperts.com /e/l/la/lady_mary_wortley_montagu.htm (1502 words)

	Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley 1689-1762, English author, noted primarily for her highly descriptive letters.
		In 1712 she married Edward Wortley Montagu, who became ambassador to Turkey in 1716.
		On her return to England in 1718 she worked to educate the public in the use of inoculation against smallpox.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-MontaguM.html (202 words)

	The Story of Lady Montagu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was a poet and essayist who was known for her wit and perceptive comments on contemporary life, literature, and political issues in eighteenth century England.
		Lady Montagu was born Mary Pierrepont, the eldest daughter of Evelyn Pierrepont, the Earl of Kingston in 1689.
		Sir Wortley Montagu’s family became increasingly displeased with Mary’s political activities and decided that she was an unacceptable danger to her husband’s reputation and notable career in Parliament.
	www.stanford.edu /~dbmuniz/Montagu.htm (1373 words)

	Edward Jenner (www.whonamedit.com)
		Edward Jenner was the sixth and youngest child of the Reverend Stephen Jenner (1702-1754), Master of Arts from Oxford, rector of Rockhampton and vicar of Berkeley, a small market town in the Severn Valley in Gloucestershire.
		In 1754, when Edward was five years old, both parents died within a few weeks of each other and he came under the guardianship of his elder brother, the Reverend Stephen Jenner, who had succeeded their father as rector of Rockhampton.
		Lady Montagu was so determined to prevent the ravages of smallpox and so impressed by the Turkish method that she ordered the Embassy surgeon, Charles Maitland, to inoculate her 5-year-old son in March 1718.
	www.whonamedit.com /doctor.cfm/1818.html (9653 words)

	Chapter Minot <i>to</i> Montagu of M by Biographical Dictionary of English Literature
		Montagu, Elizabeth (Robinson) (1720-1800).—Critic, daughter of a gentleman of Yorkshire, married a grandson of Lord Sandwich.
		Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley (Pierrepont) (1690-1762).—Letter-writer, was the eldest daughter of the 1st Duke of Kingston.
		Montagu having died, 1761, she returned at the request of her daughter, the Countess of Bute, but died the following year.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/259/1256/23292/2.html (344 words)

	Orientalism, gender and class in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Turkish Embassy Letters
		Wortley's diplomatic mission was not a success, in part due to the intrigues of his personal enemies in England, in part to his own shortcomings, and in part to his pro-Turkish stance at a historical juncture when theirs was not the winning side.
		Montagu thus conflates the imaginary Orient and the world she finds about her, collapsing time and geography to affirm that Galland's translated folk-tales, culled from the oral lore of Turkey, Arabia, Persia, India and even China, were in fact written by a Turk describing the customs of the place.
		Montagu asserts that the morality which governs marriage in the East is no different than in Europe, both in the standard ideals of the institution and the liberties taken within it.
	www.swan.ac.uk /visualanthropology/projects/004_Montagu/orientalismGenderClass.htm (7932 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Montagu, Elizabeth
		Montagu’s gatherings functioned as British salons, within which she was able to encourage a younger generation of women writers, including poets like Helen Maria Williams.
		Montagu personifies the “sacred mythology” of the church as a matriarch who establishes “fearful devotion” in her worshippers through her “arbitrary power”.
		Montagu’s fascination with arbitrary power must have prompted her later plan to write a historical biography of Elizabeth I; but this plan was never realized.
	www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=3156 (1404 words)

	August 21st
		Lady Mary Pierrepont (afterwards Lady Mary Wortley Montagu) was the eldest daughter of the Earl of Kingston (created Marquis of Dorchester in 1706, and Duke of Kingston in 1715) and Lady Mary Fielding.
		Wortley refused to settle his landed estates on his eldest son, if he should have one, irrevocably, whatever might be the character and conduct of that son.
		Wortley Montagu being appointed ambassador to Turkey, he and his wife proceeded to Constantinople, a part of the world then very unfamiliar, compared with what it has since become.
	www.thebookofdays.com /months/aug/21.htm (1612 words)

	Edward Wortley Montagu, 1713-1776
		Edward had been disinherited by his father for excesses, bizarre even for the eighteenth century.
		In 1776 Edward Montagu, anxious to provide a heir to the money so long in his sister's care, but short of time and energy, advertized in Italy for a pregnant bride.
		Forster in the 1720s and 30s had been governor to Edward Wortley Montagu, and in 1777, a year after his former pupil's death, he claimed publicly authorship of Reflections on the Rise and Fall of the Ancient Republicks, published under Montagu's name in 1759.
	www.montaguemillennium.com /familyresearch/h_1776_edward.htm (652 words)

	Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Writers, Poets and Historians: The Twickenham Museum
		Known generally as 'Mr Wortley', he was appointed Ambassador to the Court of Turkey on 7 April 1716.
		Mr Wortley does not figure prominently in her life; it was a marriage of dubious success and they went separate ways.
		Mr Wortley had in fact inherited this name from his father, Edward Montagu, second son of the 1st Earl of Sandwich.
	www.twickenham-museum.org.uk /detail.asp?ContentID=180 (590 words)

	Lady Mary Wortley Montagu on Turkey
		In 1717, she accompanied her husband, Edward Wortley Montagu, on a two-year visit to Turkey, where he was posted as ambassador extraordinary for the British government and a representative of the Levant Company.
		Montagu was conscious of her readers throughout the construction of this series of letters, and her rhetorical sense guided much of what she wrote.
		She mockingly dismisses one of the most well-known of these writers: "Sir Paul Rycaut is mistaken (as he commonly is)" in some of his assumptions about Islamic sects (Montagu 318).
	courses.wcupa.edu /wanko/LIT400/Turkey/LadyMary.htm (2670 words)

	Lady Mary Montagu
		Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) was a brilliant English writer and essayist of the 18th Century.
		Noteworthy were her letters from the Turkish Embassy where her husband Edward Wortley Montagu served as ambassador to Turkey.
		Noteworthy was her particular interest in the practice of "engrafting" (now variolation or inoculation, see Definitions) to minimize the action of smallpox caught in the wild.
	www.foundersofscience.net /lady_mary_montagu.htm (527 words)

	The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox by Jennifer Lee Carrell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In Georgian London, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu sweeps out of a palatial bedroom in a swirl of satin and silk, her three-year-old daughter in tow.
		Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Zabdiel Boylston were not scientists; their struggles against smallpox were not systematic or even logical, according to the medical knowledge of the day.
		Edward Jenner, who developed and propounded vaccination in the 1790s, is often credited as the founding father of immunology.
	www.speckledmonster.com /intro.html (2791 words)

	Books by women
		Lady Mary Wortley Montagu is primarily remembered as a prolific letter writer and traveller, although she was also a poet, essayist and feminist.
		Married to Edward Wortley Montagu, who was appointed to the post of ambassador to Turkey in 1716, they lived in Constantinople (Istanbul) for two years.
		It was whilst in Turkey that Montagu noticed the practice of inoculation against smallpox, which she later pioneered in England.
	special.lib.gla.ac.uk /exhibns/women/booksby.html (1002 words)

	An Outline of English Fiction - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
		She was the eldest daughter of Evelyn Pierrepont, later Duke of Kingston, and was baptized at Covent Garden.
		He took small pains with the education of his children, but Lady Mary was encouraged in her self-imposed studies by her uncle, William Feilding, and by Bishop Gilbert Burnet.
		She formed a close friendship with Mary Astell, a champion of women's rights, and with Anne Wortley Montagu, granddaughter of the first Earl of Sandwich.
	www.ped.muni.cz /weng/outline_of_english_fiction/terms/lady_mary_wortley_montagu.html (1092 words)

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		Edward Wortley Montagu was the only son of the celebrated Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, whose eccentricities he inherited without her genius.
		Montagu, together with Lords Taffe and Southwell, was accused of having invited one Abraham Payba, alias James Roberts, a Jew, to dine with them at Paris, in the year 1751; and of having plied him with wine till he became intoxicated, and so lost at play the sum of 800 louis d'ors.
		On ascertaining how completely they had been duped, Montagu, with his associates Lords Taffe and Southwell, repaired to the house of the Jew, and after ransacking his drawers and strong boxes, are said to have possessed themselves of a very considerable sum of money, in addition to diamonds, jewels, and other valuable articles.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext96/tgamt210.txt (19865 words)

	Chapter 8 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In 1717 Lady Mary was the twenty-eight-year-old wife of Edward Montagu, the new English ambassador in Constantinople, a tedious, miserly career diplomat.
		In 1718 little Edward Wortley Montagu was the first recorded English subject of smallpox inoculation.
		During early life, young Edward had his first experience of smallpox prevention, and a bad one it was.
	www.stevenlehrer.com /explorers/chapter_8.htm (6330 words)

	History
		Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (née Pierrepoint) was born in 1689 to an aristocratic family and lived in Thoresby Hall in Nottinghamshire.
		In 1716, Edward Wortley Montagu was appointed Ambassador to Turkey, a country which was friendly to Britain but at war with Austria.
		Edward Wortley Montagu therefore became the first native of the UK to undergo this operation.
	www.stwilfs.freeserve.co.uk /history.htm (2461 words)

	Wise, foolish, enchanting Lady Mary by Joseph Epstein (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The largely epistolary courtship between Lady Mary and Wortley was carried on, from her standpoint, as a great seduction of common sense, difficult as that may be to imagine.
		Her father disapproved the marriage, principally because Wortley would not agree to his insistence on an arrangement whereby all his estates would be entailed to his and Lady Mary’s first-born son.
		Yet Wortley remained steadfast, even in the long years when he and his wife were separated, she living alone in Italy and in France.
	www.newcriterion.com /archive/13/jan95/montagu.htm (4650 words)

	Edward Montagu, 2nd earl of Manchester -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Manchester, Edward Montagu, 2nd earl of, Viscount Mandeville, Baron Kimbolton Of Kimbolton...
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		The English beauty, wit, letter writer, and eccentric Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was one of the most colorful Englishwomen of her time.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9050459 (692 words)

	The Poetry of Anne Kingsmill Finch, Countess of Winchilsea and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
		Throughout the nineteenth and into the twentieth century Lady Mary Pierrepont Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) was known as an eccentric, a risqué earl's daughter separated from her miser of a husband, both of whom were scourged by Pope.
		Montagu's ferocity and raw depiction of sexual encounter in her verses is matched by Ardelia's depictions of sexual encounter; Finch is by turns sardonic, savage and bitter in many of her fables and songs.
		Montagu suggests the reason a man despises a woman for this kind of behavior is not that the action is a sin, but that she reveals herself to be vulnerable,to be in a weaker position.
	www.jimandellen.org /finch/annmary.html (12364 words)

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