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Born
May 15th 1689 Lady Mary Pierrepont is born. -
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's life
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Baptized
May 26 1689 Mary baptized at St. Paul’s Covent Garden in London -
Starts Corresponding With Edward Wortley
1710 Anne Wortley dies and she corresponds through letters with her brother Edward Wortley in her place. -
Edward and Mary Elope
August 23 1712 Edward and Mary get married after 2 years of negotiations. She lived in Middlethrope Hall near York for the first 2 and a half years of marriage. -
First Son is Born
May 16 1713 Mary had her first son Edward Mortley Montagu jr. During a visit to London. -
Mary starts Court Society.
1715 Mary started participating in intellectual and court society. -
Smallpox
December 1715 Mary got smallpox and survived. -
European Travels
1716 she left with her husband to his embassy in Constantinople but were required to stop in Hanover and Vienna they crisscrossed Europe along the way. Shen sent home letters from these travels and planned to use them for a travel book. -
Reached Turkey
1717 they reached Turkey in the spring and wrote extensively on Turkish culture; she was divided between Adrianople, Constantinople and Belgrade Village. -
XXIV
Fed. 12 1717 XXIV: Lord Mary and her husband are traveling from Peterwaradin to Belgrade they ride past a battle field with hundreds dead. You feel a sense of uneasiness radiating of Lord Mary’s words as she speaks to her pastor as she settles in Betsko (in-between the cities listed above) for an uncertain amount of time. Letter is listed coming from Belgrade so possibly send after they arrived? -
XXIX
April 1, 1717 XXIX: While in Adrianople she describes not only what she personally has taken from feminine Turkish fashion but in the culture of Turkish women in which she describes the freedoms Turkish women have compared to English women like her sister back home. (XXV, XXVI, and XXIX all sent together) -
XXXI
April 1, 1717 XXXI: While in Adrianople she explains the process of ingrafting to a colleague which will be very important to her legacy as England learns and practices this type of medicine. (XXV, XXVI, XXIX and XXXI all sent together) -
XXV
April 1 1717 XXV: while traveling to Adrianople (where this letter was sent) she describes how the common folks are treated in the villages along the way. A great example from this letter is the village of Nissava where Lord Mary dives into the details surrounding the fact that the “oppressed people” are starving while the city is having a booming wine business. (XXV, XXVI, XXIX and XXXI all sent together) -
XXXVI
April 1, 1717 XXVI: While located in Sophia in the Turkish Empire Lord Mary details her account of a “bathing house” in which all the women are naked. She goes into detail on how she hides to visit this place, her letter ends with “I am sure I have now entertained you with an account of such a sight as you never saw in your life, and what no book of travels could inform you of, as 'tis no less than death for a man to be found in one of these places.” (XXV, XXVI, XXIX and XXXI all sent together) -
XXXIII
April 16, 1717 XXXIII: She tries to get one last letter to her sister about how she was allowed into the home of the first two generals where she was located. She explains the differences in house, one dedicated to devotion and one to authority and she explains the lavish differences of them both. Lord Mary was intrigued by everything she was witnessing and how she was treated with so much respect -
XXXIV
May 17th, 1717 XXXIV: Lord Mary is now leaving Adrianople and wants to document everything she's seen to her friend, and while she describes this town you get information on the hierarchy of Turkish leadership. We are informed she is now traveling to Constantinople -
Birth of her first Daughter
Jan. 19 1718 She gave birth to her daughter; later known as Lady Bute. -
Back to England
July 5 1718 they sailed back home from Constantinople. -
Falls in love with Algarotti
1736 She falls in love with Francesco Algarotti in the same year as her daughters wedding. this creates an affair with him as she is cheating on her husband. -
Moves to France
1739 Lord Mary moves to France "for health treatments" but we now know it was to be with Algarotti. Soon after he must leave for Russia and she waits for him in Venice. -
Ends Affair
Spring 1741 her affair with Algarotti ends as she travels around from Rome to Florence and back. -
Escapes imprisonment
Spring 1756 Mary realizes she's a prisoner to Palazzi in which she documents that she plans to sue him. she escapes with help from her colleague and finds out all the deeds to her land were stolen and probably weren't even valid to begin with. -
Goes Back to Europe
1762 She is called back to England when her son contests her husbands will which they planned to all go to her daughter Lady Bute. She wishes to go back to Venice but isn't well enough to do so. -
Death
She died at Great George Street, Mayfair, Westminster, on 21 August 1762, and was buried the next day in the vault of Grosvenor Chapel in South Audley Street.