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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Libros

    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu fue una aristócrata y escritora inglesa, recordada hoy principalmente por sus cartas, en particular las procedentes de Turquía. Estas misivas han sido descritas como “el primer ejemplo de una obra secular de una mujer sobre el Oriente musulmán”. Sus escritos ofrecen una perspectiva única sobre la cultura y la sociedad de su tiempo desde un punto de vista inusual para la época.

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    Letters

    • Letters

      • 616 páginas
      • 22 horas de lectura

      Immensely learned, self-educated in an era when formal schooling was denied to women, Mary Wortley Montagu was an admired poet, a consistently scandalous doyenne of eighteenth-century London society, and, in a period when letter-writing had been elevated to an art form, one of the greatest letter writers in the English language. Her epistles, meant for both public and private consumption, are the product of a mind distinguished by its adventurousness, its indifference to convention, and its eagerness not only to acquire knowledge but to convey it with unmitigated style and grace.

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