Experiment in Prose: Authority and Experience in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Letters

Diana G Barnes

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-49651-7_3

Experiment in Prose: Authority and Experience in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Letters

Diana G Barnes

English

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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was known as an innovator during her lifetime. Voltaire singles her out as ‘one of the most intelligent women in England, and with a powerful intellect into the bargain’ (Voltaire 1980, 55), citing her preparedness to disregard religious superstition to trial smallpox inoculation on her young son while in Turkey, and subsequently to promote the practice in England (by introducing it to the Princess of Wales who then championed the practice). Voltaire identifes Montagu as a supporter of new knowledge and innovation, well positioned in society to ensure that her endorsement had impact beyond her own circle.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Women Writers and Experimental Narratives: Early Modern to Contemporary
Editors	Kate Aughterson, Deborah Philips
Place of Publication	Cham, Switzerland
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Pages	43-61
Edition	1
ISBN (Print)	9783030496517, 9783030496500
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49651-7_3
Publication status	Published - 31 Dec 2021

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Experiment in Prose: Authority and Experience in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Letters. / Barnes, Diana G.
Women Writers and Experimental Narratives: Early Modern to Contemporary. ed. / Kate Aughterson; Deborah Philips. 1. ed. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. p. 43-61.

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