ENG206

This page consists of sites found by students in ENG206: English Literature at Florida Southern College in Spring 2009. They were asked to find sites which discussed Montagu's travels and her travel-writing. If you encounter any problems with links, please feel free to contact me.

This article talks about how she embraced the culture of foreign nations. She mentioned the people and society compared to England. When she spent 20 years she learned a wide variety about the people and the structure of the country.

This is a writing she did for one of her friends about the disease called small pox. She writes about how the disease is "entirely harmless" to them because of the vaccination that they are given. In the begin there is a side note slash "preamble" explaining how she vaccinated both her children. It also says that by the end of the 18th century an English physician had cultivated a serum in cattle which could be used for humans as a vaccination. The rest of the letter just describes the process of getting this vaccination.

Lady Montagu was a very well-traveled woman of her time. She was born in London and resided there until her husband was transferred to work in Turkey. She adjusted well to life in Turkey and she also travelled to Naples, Italy. She learned of the small-pox vaccine in Turkey and brought the idea to England.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was an English aristocrat that began writing chiefly for the purposes of communication with close friends. She eloped with Edward Wortley Montagu and subsequently moved with him to Istanbul after he was promoted to Lord Commissioner of the Treasury after traveling through Vienna and Adrianople. While in Istanbul she learned of the practice of inoculation of small pox and became a strong advocator of inoculation of people in England. Documentation of her travels came in the form of the Turkish Embassy Letters. Besides the Letters documentation of other writings of Mary exist in letters of correspondence. About 20 years later, Mary left her husband and traveled abroad, one of the places being Florence, Italy. She also lived at Avignon, at Brescia, at Gottolengo and at Lovere on the Lage d’Iseo. Mary then became ill with smallpox and returned to London where she died.