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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
The life and career of the 18th century letter-writer/scientist, emphasizing her role in controlling smallpox.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages) |
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1994
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"Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) was an outstanding example of what the early Enlightenment chose to describe as Scientific Ladies. She is best known today for her correspondence; in an age of letter-writing, she is perhaps the nearest English counterpart of the great French epistolist, Madame de Sevigne. Her interests and accomplishments, however, ranged as widely as those of any of her male contemporaries; she wrote a series of "Court Eclogs," poetry which Alexander Pope felt moved to preserve a manuscript copy of, though "she was prevented by the decorum of her sex and social class from publishing under her name" (Montagu, 1977, p. vii), and distinguished herself as a proto-feminist two generations before Mary Wollstonecraft.She was also keenly interested in scientific subjects of all..."
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