| Evidence: | 'Sir Paul Rycaut is mistaken (as he commonly is) in calling the sect [italics] muterin [italics].' |
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| Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Until: 1 Apr 1717 | ||||||||||
| Country: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | n/a |
| Date of Birth | 26 May 1689 |
| Socio-economic group: | Royalty / aristocracy |
| Occupation: | Daughter of the fifth Earl of Kingston upon Hull. Wife of the British ambassador to Constantinople. |
| Religion: | Christian |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | unknown |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | nee Lady Mary Pierrepoint. Known by this name until her 1712 marriage to Edward Wortley Montagu. |
| Author: | Sir Paul Rycaut |
| Title: | unknown |
| Genre: | History, Geography / Travel, Politics |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 12539 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | |
| Editor: | R. Brimley Johnson | |
| Title: | Letters from the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 1709 to 1762 | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1906 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 108 | |
| Additional comments: | Letter from Wortley Montagu to the Abbe Conti. Taken from the Kessinger Publishing Reprint of 1906 edition published by J.M.Dent. |
| Citation: | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu, R. Brimley Johnson (ed.), Letters from the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 1709 to 1762 (London, 1906), p. 108, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=12539, accessed: 18 April 2024 | |
| Letter written whilst Wortley Montagu was in Adrianople. Sir Paul Rycaut served as chancellor and secretary during the Earl of Winchelsea's embassy to Constantinople in the 1660s, and wrote several accounts of his experiences and Turkish society. |
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