Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - The Turkish Embassy Letters

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"I have been so lucky neither to suffer from fear or sea-sickness" p. 3
lack of fear
1 of 45
"I was forced to pass the night in my clothes in a room not at all better than a hovel" p.7
hovel
2 of 45
"They have sumptuary laws [...] which distinguish their rank by their dress [...] I wish these laws were in force in other parts of the world" p.9
sumptuary laws
3 of 45
"[I have not] suffered in my health, nor (what is dearer to me) in that of my child" p.12
health, child
4 of 45
"I will not fail to let you know my real thoughts" p.14
real thoughts
5 of 45
"I find that I have (as well as the rest of my sex) whatever face I set on it, a strong disposition to believe in miracles" p.15
sex, miracles
6 of 45
"No man enters [the drawing room] but the old grand master" p.18
no man
7 of 45
"Only the ladies had permission to shoot" p.20
ladies shooting
8 of 45
"the young ladies [were] skilful enough to defend a fort and they laughed very much to see me afraid to handle a gun" p.20
comparison of mary and female shooters
9 of 45
"getting a lover is so far from losing, that tis properly getting reputation, ladies being much more respected in regard to the rank of their lovers than that of their husbands" p. 22
lovers, reputation
10 of 45
"here are many ladies much richer than their husbands" p.25
ladies, wealth
11 of 45
"the womanly spirit of contradiction that works in me" p.28
women, contradiction
12 of 45
"[The Countess of Cosel had] so absolute a dominion over [the King of Poland] that never any lady had had so much power in that court" p.33
powerful Countess
13 of 45
"I am going to write very dully, as most people do when they write of themselves" p.37
Mary as a writer
14 of 45
"these little monsters, as ugly as devils, [...] pieces of deformity, [...] refuse of human nature" p.42
Mary's view on dwarves
15 of 45
"I have all a mother's fondness in my eyes, and all her tender passions in my heart" p.44
Mary as a mother
16 of 45
"I won't lie like other travellers" p.44
Mary's view on other travel writers
17 of 45
"the injustice of war that makes murder not only necessary but meritorious" p.51
war
18 of 45
"the confinements of women. He assures me there is nothing at all in it" p.54
Mary's conversation with an effendi about women
19 of 45
"gives me an opportunity of amusing your Royal Highness" p. 55
Mary's intentions as a writer to a royal
20 of 45
"this climate, happy as it seems, can never be preferred to England [...] we are blessed with an easy government" p.57
Mary's love for England
21 of 45
"their slaves behind them, but without any distinction of rank by their dress" p.59
attire of women in spa, rank
22 of 45
"most of their skins shiningly white" p. 59
white skin
23 of 45
"I had wickedness enough to wish secretly that Mr Gervase could have been there invisible" p.59
male painter
24 of 45
"I was so locked up in that machine" p. 60
Mary's attire compared to naked women
25 of 45
"no books of travels could inform you [of the spa" p.60
Mary;s advantage as a female travel writer
26 of 45
"not ugly, but of tawny complexions" p.65
ugly, complexion
27 of 45
"Turkish ladies don't commit one sin the less for not being Christians" p.71
Turkish women, sin
28 of 45
"I cannot forbear admiring either the exemplary discretion or extreme stupidity of all the writers that have given accounts of [Turkish women]"p.71
travel writers, Turkish women
29 of 45
"they have more liberty than we have" p.71
women, liberty
30 of 45
"all their money in their own hands" p.72
women, money
31 of 45
"I look upon the Turkish women as the only free people in the empire" p.72
women, free, empire
32 of 45
"nothing seems to me so agreeable as truth" p.72
truth
33 of 45
"That surprising harmony of features! That charming result of the whole!" p.89
Fatima
34 of 45
"any woman that dies unmarried is looked upon to die in a state of reprobation" p.100
widows, afterlife
35 of 45
"they say they are not of so elevated a kind and therefore must not hope to be admitted into the paradise appointed for the men" p.100
male afterlife, female afterlife
36 of 45
"it is more despicable to be married and not fruitful than it is with us to be fruitful before marriage" p. 107
fruitfulness
37 of 45
"I am also charmed with many points of the Turkish law, to our shame be it spoken, better designed and executed than ours" p.108
Turkish law
38 of 45
"so mankind have their mongrels too" p. 112
mixed-race people
39 of 45
"'This is no Turkish lady; she is certainly some Christian' [...] compliment" p. 119
Christian = good
40 of 45
"if my opinion is of any weight with you" p. 125
letter to Wortley
41 of 45
"you do not so much as ask after him" p.125
Wortley, son
42 of 45
"having nothing better to do, I have produced a daughter" p. 132
daughter
43 of 45
"beauty of this sight, most of them being well proportioned and white skinned" p.135
beauty, whiteness
44 of 45
"They are not quite black, but all mulattoes, and the most frightful creatures that can appear in a human figure" p. 149
mulattoes
45 of 45

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"I was forced to pass the night in my clothes in a room not at all better than a hovel" p.7

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hovel

Card 3

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"They have sumptuary laws [...] which distinguish their rank by their dress [...] I wish these laws were in force in other parts of the world" p.9

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Card 4

Front

"[I have not] suffered in my health, nor (what is dearer to me) in that of my child" p.12

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Card 5

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"I will not fail to let you know my real thoughts" p.14

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