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First American edition, complete in two volumes. 8vo, pp xlv (memoir of the author by Dalloway), 397 + ads; [13]-444, including index. Robinson (Wayward Woman) says Lady Montagu (1689-1762) was "the first authoress to travel abroad for mere curiosity's sake and call herself, with pride, a traveller," and praises "the unprecedented adventurousness of her journey to Turkey and the skill with which she described its strangeness." She left England with her husband (who had been appointed ambassador to Turkey) in 1716. The journey to Constantinople overland from Holland took them a year, and they remained there for eighteen months. Her letters, circulated in manuscript during her lifetime but published posthumously, "revealed to their readers for the first time what lay behind the jewelled curtain of the East: an it was not at all what they might have expected. The slave of the seraglio, she said, were far less put-upon than servants back home, and Turkish women had far more liberty than English woman. Disguised and unrecognizable in their capes and veils. they lived delicious lives of 'perpetual masquerade': the perfect front for intrigue and adventurism. And far from swooning over the fabled excesses of Turkish life, Lady Mary merely concluded that 'gallantry and good breeding are as different, in different climates, as morality and religion. Who have the rightest notions of both, we shall never know." (Robinson p. 33). Scarce in this edition. Seller Inventory # 16558
Bibliographic Details
Title: The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley ...
Publisher: Carey, Lea, and Blanchard, Philadelphia
Publication Date: 1837
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