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Mary became a Lady when her father succeeded his brother as earl of Kingston
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Lady Mary filled two volumes with writings, both poetry and prose, at age 14
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Edward Wortley Montagu the younger was born
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At New Year's of 1715, Lady Mary arrived in London and plunged herself into court and intellectual society
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Lady Mary writes to Pope from Belgrade, detailing the events of her travels thus far
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In this letter, Lady Mary is writing to Mrs. S.C. from Adrianople. Mary discusses the notion of inoculation, and how she has seen it in practice on her travels, as well as how it works. She also mentions wishing to bring inoculation back to England when she returns home.
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Lady Mary writes to the Princess of Wales from Adrianople. In this letter, Lady Mary tells the Princess of the city she is currently in, as well as the economic disparity between citizens of the city and the oppression of the lower classes.
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Lady Mary writes to "The Lady" from Adrianople, and paints a beautifully vivid picture of the hot baths at Sophia. Lady Mary talks at length of the beauty and lack of modesty/shame of the Turkish at the baths, detailing their shapeliness, their beautiful hair, etc.
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Lady Mary writes to her sister from Adrianople. In this letter, she first entreats her sister to write her of what is happening back home, then goes on to describe in great detail the Turkish dress which she has traded her English garments for, as well as the perceived sense of liberty that being entirely covered brings
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Lady Mary writes to her sister from Adrianopolis. In this letter, Mary tells her sister of the entertainments she was afforded the previous night, via visits to female nobility of Adrianople. She goes on at length about the beauty of the people and of their dress, focusing specifically on a noblewoman named Fatima and the perceived perfection of her person.
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In this letter, Lady Mary is writing to "The Abbott of--" from Adrianople. She writes about the city of Adrianople itself, as well as it's charms. She also details a ceremony which she was privy to that involved the parading of the city's finest of each profession through the town, and goes on to discuss the beauty of a mosque she visited. She ends this letter by promising in a postscript to write to the recipient from Constantinople.
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the future Mary Stuart was born in Turkey in 1718.
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Lady Mary convinced a doctor to inoculate her daughter against smallpox, and in doing so brought the eastern practice of inoculation to the west.
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Lady Mary fell in love with "a brilliant young middle-class Venetian" named Francesco Algarotti and began writing him love letters
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Lady Mary spent over a decade travelling to flee war, rather than travelling with her lover as she once had
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