Lewis Melville weaves Lady Mary’s own letters into the story of her life: a clever girlhood, a secret courtship and elopement with Edward Wortley Montagu, the embassy to Constantinople that taught her the Turkish practice of inoculation, the court of George I, her famous quarrel with Pope, and long years abroad in Italy and France.
An entertaining guide to one of the sharpest pens of the eighteenth century. Download the free EPUB.