Evidence: | 'I am more inclined, out of a true female spirit of contradiction, to tell you the falsehood of a great part of what you find in authors; as, for example, in the admirable Mr. Hill, who so gravely asserts, that he saw in Sancta Sophia a sweating pillar, very balsamic for disordered heads...'Tis also very pleasant to observe how tenderly he and all his brethren voyage-writers lament the miserable confinement of the Turkish ladies, who are perhaps freer than any ladies in the universe.' |
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Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 10 Apr 1718 and 19 May 1718 | ||||||||||
Country: | unknown | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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: | unknown |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Mr Hill |
Title: | unknown |
Genre: | Geography / Travel |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 12634 | |
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: | 167 | |
Additional comments: | Letter from Wortley Montagu to her sister, the Countess of Mar. 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. 167, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=12634, accessed: 07 June 2023 |
Letter was written from Constantinople |
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