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9 de jul. de 2024 · En realidad, la lucha de los europeos contra la viruela había empezado décadas antes. En 1716 llegó a Estambul el nuevo embajador británico, lord Montagu. Su esposa, lady Mary Wortley, había sufrido la viruela dos años antes. Ella sobrevivió, desfigurada, pero su hermano murió.
4 de jul. de 2024 · An illuminating and beautiful novel which gives a voice to the tragically unremembered yet extraordinary life of pioneering poet and feminist, Mary Wortley Montagu.
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30 de jun. de 2024 · by Edward Wortley Montagu. In 1759, at the height of the Seven Years’ War, when Great Britain was suffering a series of military reversals, Montagu considered his country’s plight in an historical context formed by the study of five ancient republics: Sparta, Athens, Thebes, Carthage, and Rome.
10 de jul. de 2024 · He used the house as a spring and summer residence, together with his daughters Mary, before her marriage to Edward Wortley Montagu in 1712, and Frances, who married the Jacobite John Erskine, earl of Mar (d. 1732), at Acton in 1714.
8 de jul. de 2024 · In his new novel, A Woman of Opinion, Sean Lusk tells the story of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, based closely on her own published letters. Montagu, whom I previously knew almost nothing about, lived from 1689 to 1762, and was an English writer, poet and medical pioneer.
30 de jun. de 2024 · How Mary Wortley Montagu and other great 18th-century women were forgotten. Diminished, disparaged, derided. That’s how Sean Lusk describes the fate of Mary Wortley Montagu and other great women of the 18th century. He looks at how they came to be forgotten.
Hace 6 días · In the large house on the north side of the street, enclosed in its own grounds, and embowered in a grove of plane-trees, nearly opposite Curzon Chapel, lived Lord Wharncliffe, the great-grandson of Lady Mary Wortley-Montagu, and editor of her works.
