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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu |
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Writer, born 1689 in London, England. The daughter of the Duke of Kingston, she married Edward Wortley Montague in 1712, and lived in London. A poet and essayist as well as a feminist and a beauty, she gained a brilliant reputation among literary figures. While in Constantinople with her husband, she wrote her entertaining Letters, published in 1763 after her death in 1762, describing Eastern life. She also brought the smallpox inoculation from Turkey, introducing it to England, her own beauty having been marked by an attack while she was a young woman. |