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    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (née Pierrepont; 15 May 1689 – 21 August 1762) was an English aristocrat, medical pioneer, writer, and poet. Born in 1689, Lady...
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    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and father of the writer and traveller Edward Wortley Montagu. Son of Sidney Wortley Montagu and grandson of Edward Montagu, 1st...
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    Mary Stuart, Countess of Bute, 1st Baroness Mount Stuart (née Wortley Montagu; 19 January 1718 – 6 November 1794) was the wife of British nobleman John...
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    diplomat and member of parliament Edward Wortley Montagu and the writer and traveller Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, whose talent and eccentricity he seems...
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  • Write a Poem Call'd the Lady's Dressing Room" is a poem by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu published in 1734. The poem is a satire and was written in response...
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    The Turkish Embassy Letters are a letter collection of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's reflections on her travels through the Ottoman Empire between 1716 and...
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    India Company stationed in China and another by Clopton Havers. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu observed smallpox inoculation during her stay in the Ottoman Empire...
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    against smallpox was brought from Turkey to Britain in 1721 by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. The terms vaccine and vaccination are derived from Variolae vaccinae...
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    Ilay. In August 1735, he eloped with Mary Wortley Montagu, whose parents Sir Edward and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu were slow to consent to the marriage...
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  • Lady Mary Montagu, the wife of a British diplomat to the Ottoman Empire, said variolation was widely practiced in the Ottoman Empire. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu...
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