Written in 1717, the only surviving correspondence from the celebrated chronicler of her time in Turkey heads sale of female writers’ work
Declaring that “I like travelling extremely & have no reason to complain of having had too little of it, having now gone through all the Turkish Dominions in Europe”, the only surviving letter written by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu from Turkey has gone up for sale.
Written in April 1717 from Adrianople, now Edirne, to her long-time correspondent Mrs Frances Hewet, the letter sees Lady Mary talk of her “Journeys through Hungary, Bohemia, & the whole Tour of Germany”. Turkey, she tells her “dear” Mrs Hewet, “is one of [the] finest in the world; hitherto all I see is so new to me, it is like a fresh scene of an opera every day”. Her husband, Edward Wortley Montagu, was ambassador to Turkey at the time.
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