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Language: English
Published by Broadview Press, 2012
- Softcover
- New
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- Title
- Turkish Embassy Letters
- Author
- Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley
- Publisher
- Broadview Press
- Publication year
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1554810426
- ISBN 13
- 9781554810420
In 1716, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s husband Edward Montagu was appointed British ambassador to the Sublime Porte of the Ottoman Empire. Montagu accompanied her husband to Turkey and wrote an extraordinary series of letters that recorded her experiences as a traveller and her impressions of Ottoman culture and society.
This Broadview edition includes a broad selection of related historical documents on Turkey, women in the Arab world, Islam, and “Oriental” tales written in Europe.
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About the Author
Daniel O'Quinn is Professor of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph.
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