Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (baptized 26 May 1689 – 21 August 1762) was an English letter writer and poet. She is famous for her letters about her travels to the Ottoman Empire. Her husband was the British ambassador to Turkey. She also introduced and encouraged Smallpox inoculation to Britain.
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A painting of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu by Jonathan Richardson the Younger.
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu with her son Edward, by Jean-Baptiste van Mour.
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, by Charles Jervas, after 1716.
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Memorial to the Rt. Hon. Lady Mary Wortley Montague erected in Lichfield Cathedral by Henrietta Inge.
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Alexander Pope declared his love to Lady Mary, who responded with laughter.
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu in 1739.
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Lady Montagu in Turkish dress by Jean-Étienne Liotard, ca. 1756, Palace on the Water in Warsaw.
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu in Turkish dress.
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The title page of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, which was published in 1837.
