Evidence: | 'I have got for you, as you desire, a Turkish love-letter, which I have put in a little box, and ordered the captain of the Smyrniote to deliver it to you with this letter. The translation of it is as literally as follows: The first piece you should pull out of the purse is a little pearl, which is in Turkish called [italics] Ingi [italics]...You see this letter is all verses, and I can assure you there is as much fancy shewn in the choice of them, as in the most studied expressions of our letters; there being, I believe, a million of verses designed for this use.' |
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Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1689 and 16 Mar 1718 | ||||||||||
Country: | Turkey | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Constantinople | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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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: | unknown |
Title: | unknown |
Genre: | Poetry, Romantic poetry |
Form of Text: | Manuscript: Letter |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | owned Given as a gift to the recipient of the letter. |
Record ID: | 12631 | |
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: | 159-160 | |
Additional comments: | Letter from Wortley Montagu to an unnamed Lady. 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. 159-160, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=12631, accessed: 26 April 2024 |
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