1361054 THE LETTERS AND WORKS OF LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU. EDITED BY HER GREAT GRANDSON LORD WHARNCLIFFE. IN THREE VOLUMES. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, James Stuart-Whortley.
THE LETTERS AND WORKS OF LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU. EDITED BY HER GREAT GRANDSON LORD WHARNCLIFFE. IN THREE VOLUMES
THE LETTERS AND WORKS OF LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU. EDITED BY HER GREAT GRANDSON LORD WHARNCLIFFE. IN THREE VOLUMES
THE LETTERS AND WORKS OF LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU. EDITED BY HER GREAT GRANDSON LORD WHARNCLIFFE. IN THREE VOLUMES
THE LETTERS AND WORKS OF LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU. EDITED BY HER GREAT GRANDSON LORD WHARNCLIFFE. IN THREE VOLUMES
THE LETTERS AND WORKS OF LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU. EDITED BY HER GREAT GRANDSON LORD WHARNCLIFFE. IN THREE VOLUMES
THE LETTERS AND WORKS OF LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU. EDITED BY HER GREAT GRANDSON LORD WHARNCLIFFE. IN THREE VOLUMES
THE LETTERS AND WORKS OF LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU. EDITED BY HER GREAT GRANDSON LORD WHARNCLIFFE. IN THREE VOLUMES
THE LETTERS AND WORKS OF LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU. EDITED BY HER GREAT GRANDSON LORD WHARNCLIFFE. IN THREE VOLUMES
THE LETTERS AND WORKS OF LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU. EDITED BY HER GREAT GRANDSON LORD WHARNCLIFFE. IN THREE VOLUMES
THE LETTERS AND WORKS OF LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU. EDITED BY HER GREAT GRANDSON LORD WHARNCLIFFE. IN THREE VOLUMES
THE LETTERS AND WORKS OF LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU. EDITED BY HER GREAT GRANDSON LORD WHARNCLIFFE. IN THREE VOLUMES

THE LETTERS AND WORKS OF LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU. EDITED BY HER GREAT GRANDSON LORD WHARNCLIFFE. IN THREE VOLUMES

London: Richard Bentley, 1837. First Edition. Octavos, lxiv, 424 pp (Vol. 1); [2], 3-425 pp (Vol. 2); [2], 467 pp (Vol. 3). VG; bound in contemporary burgundy cloth with some fading and surface marks to covers, gilt titling to spines, minor shelf wear to edges and corners; bindings tight; gilt top edges of text blocks with fore edges clean; pages clean, with some offsetting from engravings opposite title pages; half-titles present in all volumes; previous owner bookplates present but not attached inside front pastedowns of Vols. 1 and 3, missing from Vol. 2 but paste remains, "Alan Haswell Vrooman, Es Wandelt Niemand Unbestraft Unter Palmen." Shelved above WWII.

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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) was an English aristocrat, writer, and poet. She spent her early life in England. In 1712, she 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.

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. Her writings address and challenge the hindering contemporary social attitudes towards women and their intellectual and social growth. (via Wikipedia)

As a noblewoman and wife of an ambassador, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu had a much broader knowledge of the world than someone of Jane Austen's more humble upbringing. However, as little as Jane Austen herself traveled, and though she never left England, she drew upon the stories her naval brothers told of their adventures on the Continent and in the Americas to gain a wider understanding of politics and culture. Both Lady Mary and Jane Austen wrote about what was familiar to them, within their sphere and scope, and it is interesting to compare the two women's very different experiences of a similar period in British history.