The Turkish Embassy Letters
$37.40
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
12 August 1996
Summary
The critical and biographical introduction tells of Lady Wortley Montagu’s travels through Europe to Turkey in 1716, where her husband had been appointed Ambassador. Her lively letters offer insights into the paradoxical freedoms conferred on Muslim women by the veil, the value of experimental work by Turkish doctors on inoculation, and the beauty of Arab poetry and culture.
The ability to study another culture according to its own values and to see herself through the eyes of others …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781853816796 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1853816795 |
| Author: | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Anita Desai, Mary Wortley Montagu |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Edition: | 1994th |
| Release Date: | 12 August 1996 |
| Weight: | 163g |
| Dimensions: | 126mm x 196mm x 12mm |
| Series: | Virago Modern Classics |
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Her letters have an immediacy and vivacity that remains as fresh as the mosiacs on the ancient monuments she saw and the eastern gardens that gave her such delight.
Her letters have an immediacy and vivacity that remains as fresh as the mosiacs on the ancient monuments she saw and the eastern gardens that gave her such delight. - Anita Desai
About The Author
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s connections with poets such as Pope, Congreve, and Addison, and with Whig politicians through her father and husband, provide a fascinating base for the correspondence.
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