The Turkish Embassy Letters
Publisher: Broadview Press
Published: Sep 20, 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9781554810420
Description: "In 1716, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's husband Edward Montagu was appointed British ambassador to the Sublime Porte of the Ottoman Empire. Montagu accompanied her husband to Turkey and wrote an extraordinary series of letters that recorded her experiences as a traveller and her impressions of Ottoman culture and society. This Broadview edition includes a broad selection of related historical documents on Turkey, women in the Arab world, Islam, and 'Oriental' tales written in Europe."--