| Evidence: | 'I endeavour to persuade myself that I live in a more agreeable variety that you do; and that Monday, setting of partridges - Tuesday, reading English - Wednesday, studying the Turkish language (in which, by the way, I am already very learned - Thursday, classical authors.' |
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| Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1689 and 17 Jun 1717 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Current day Serbia | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Belgrade | ||||||||||
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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: | Current day Serbia |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | unknown |
| Title: | unknown |
| Genre: | Unknown |
| Form of Text: | Unknown |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 12626 | |
| 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: | 144 | |
| 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. 144, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=12626, accessed: 25 April 2024 | |
| It is unclear what 'English' or which classical authors Wortley Montagu was reading. Similarly, it is unclear what she was using to study the Turkish language. |
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