description: The unprecedented adventurousness of Wortley Montagu's (1689-1762) journey to Turkey and the skill with which she described its strangeness, set her well apart from the rest. She was the first authoress to travel abroad for mere curiosity's sake, and call herself, with considerable pride, 'a traveller'.
language: English
title: Life of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
titlecomplete: Life of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
genres: Biography, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 9
publisher: Oxford Univ Pr (T)