Evidence: | 'Thus, dear sister, I have given you a very particular, and (I am afraid you'll think) a tedious account, of this part of my travels. It was not an affectation of shewing my reading, that has made me tell you some little scraps of the history of the towns I have passed through.' |
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Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
Date: | Until: 30 Jan 1717 | ||||||||||
Country: | Hungary | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
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: | Hungary |
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: | unknown |
Title: | [history] |
Genre: | History |
Form of Text: | Unknown |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 12538 | |
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: | 98 | |
Additional comments: | Letter from Wortley Montagu to her sister the Countess of Mar. 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. 98, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=12538, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
Letter written whilst Wortley Montagu was in Peterwaradin, in Hungary. |
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