Evidence: | 'I can only tell you, that if you please to read Sir Paul Rycaut, you will there find a full and true account of the viziers, the [italics] beglerbeys [italics], the civil and spiritual government, the officers of the seraglio, &c., things that 'tis very easy to procure lists of, and therefore may be depended on; though other stories, God knows - I say no more - every body is at liberty to write their own remarks; the manners of people may change, or some of them escape the observation of travellers, but 'tis not the same of the government; and for that reason, since I can tell you nothing new, I will tell nothing of it.' |
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Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1700 and 19 May 1718 | ||||||||||
Country: | Turkey | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 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: | Turkey |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Sir Paul Rycaut |
Title: | unknown |
Genre: | History, Geography / Travel, Politics |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 12637 | |
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: | 172 | |
Additional comments: | Letter from Wortley Montagu to the Abbe Conti. Taken from the Kessinger Publishing's 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), n/a, p. 172, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=12637, accessed: 23 April 2024 |
Letter was written from Constantinople |
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