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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762)

Autor de Turkish Embassy Letters

47+ Obras 842 Miembros 12 Reseñas 2 Preferidas

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Lady Mary, as Montagu is known, was among the truly independent women of eighteenth-century England. During her lifetime she was much admired as a poet of stylish wit; afterward she was highly regarded as a correspondent of keen observation. While still a young woman, she eloped with Edward Wortley mostrar más Montagu and, when he was appointed ambassador, accompanied him to Constantinople. On her return to England, she brought with her the vaccine for smallpox (she had meanwhile contracted the disease). She was the leading woman of letters of her day, and, while she quarreled in print with her friends Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift, she returned their attacks with at least equal force. From 1739 until just before her death in 1762, she left England and her husband for Italy; from Brescia she wrote to her daughter letters so brimming with learning that Voltaire compared them favorably to those of Mme de Sevigne (see Vol. 2). (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos

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Obras de Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Turkish Embassy Letters (1988) 265 copias
Letters (1763) 183 copias
Indamora to Lindamira (1994) 4 copias
Romance writings (1996) 4 copias
Letters, 1709-1762 (1925) 3 copias
Sark Mektuplari (2017) 1 copia
The Adventurer (2000) 1 copia

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Conocimiento común

Fecha de nacimiento
1689-05-15
Fecha de fallecimiento
1762-08-21
Género
female
Nacionalidad
UK
Lugar de nacimiento
London, England, UK
Lugar de fallecimiento
London, England, UK
Lugares de residencia
London, England, UK
Istanbul, Ottoman Turkey
Florence, Tuscany, Italy
Avignon, France
Brescia, Italy
Gottolengo
Educación
at home
Ocupaciones
poet
letter writer
playwright
aristocrat
essayist
translator (mostrar todos 7)
diarist
Relaciones
Stuart, Lady Louisa (granddaughter)
Pope, Alexander (friend)
Astell, Mary (friend)
Gay, John (friend)
Biografía breve
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, née Pierrepont, was born in London, a daughter of Evelyn and Mary Pierrepont. Her father became earl of Kingston the year after her birth. She was educated at home and taught herself Latin in her father's library. Her early influences were the classics, John Dryden, and French romances. In 1710, she translated the Enchiridion (Handbook) of the ancient Greek philosopher Epictetus from Latin into English and sent a copy to Gilbert Brunet, Bishop of Salisbury, with a letter defending women's right to formal education. Despite her initial reluctance, in 1712, she married Edward Wortley Montagu, a lawyer, diplomat, and Member of Parliament. Her first published writing appeared in 1714 in Addison's Spectator, under the pseudonym Lady President. During this period she also became friends with a literary circle that included Alexander Pope and John Gay. She is chiefly known today for the letters she wrote while the couple were living in 1716-1718 in Constantinople (present-day Istanbul), where her husband served as the British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire. Her writings are considered an extremely valuable historical resource, and the earliest secular work by a woman about the Muslim world. She also wrote volumes of poems, essays, a brief epistolary novel, and a play. Lady Mary kept a diary, but it was burned after her death by her daughter Mary, Lady Bute. Her surviving Letters and Works were published in 1837 with an introduction by her granddaughter Lady Louisa Stuart.

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La imagen que Europa compuso en el siglo XVIII de la cultura otomana ya no fue la misma tras esta sorprendente correspondencia. Desmintiendo relatos de otros viajeros, cubierta con el yasmak [asmak], o velo turco, esta inglesa, no solo escribe la crónica de los bazares, las mezquitas, las ceremonias de la corte o la vida en las calles, sino que da noticia de la vacuna sobre la viruela o desvela la intimidad del harén y la voluptuosidad de los hamanes como ningún europeo lo había hecho antes desatando un imaginario que transforma las artes y alienta la estética orientalista. En el siglo de grandes damas e ilustres salonnières, la inteligencia de Lady Montagu asombró a Voltaire que la consideraba por su cosmopolitismo muy superior a madame de Sévigné y sabido es que el pintor Ingres, un siglo después, encontró en sus prolijas descripciones del haremlik inspiración para sus cuadros de odaliscas y escenas de harén. Su energía y humor sutil aún provoca entre nosotros una fascinación intacta como nos recuerda Juan Goytisolo.… (más)
 
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