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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu bola anglická aristokratka a spisovateľka, dnes si ju pripomíname najmä pre jej listy, obzvlášť tie z Turecka. Tieto listy boli označené za „úplne prvý príklad svetského diela ženy o moslimskom Orientu“. Jej tvorba ponúka jedinečný pohľad na kultúru a spoločnosť svojej doby z perspektívy, ktorá bola v tom čase neobvyklá.



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.