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    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu fu un'aristocratica e scrittrice inglese, oggi ricordata soprattutto per le sue lettere, in particolare quelle dalla Turchia. Queste lettere sono state descritte come “il primissimo esempio di un'opera laica di una donna sull'Oriente musulmano”. I suoi scritti offrono una prospettiva unica sulla cultura e la società del suo tempo da un punto di vista insolito per l'epoca.

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    Letters

    • Letters

      • 616pagine
      • 22 ore di lettura

      Immensely learned, self-educated in an era when formal schooling was denied to women, Mary Wortley Montagu was an admired poet, a consistently scandalous doyenne of eighteenth-century London society, and, in a period when letter-writing had been elevated to an art form, one of the greatest letter writers in the English language. Her epistles, meant for both public and private consumption, are the product of a mind distinguished by its adventurousness, its indifference to convention, and its eagerness not only to acquire knowledge but to convey it with unmitigated style and grace.

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