Life of English aristocrat Lady Mary Wortley Montagu who brought smallpox inoculation to Britain
Well-educated, adventurous and a promoter of trailblazing science, there was much to distinguish 18th century aristocrat Lady Mary Wortley Montagu from her peers. Although most famous for her letters about life in the Ottoman Empire - written during her husband's posting as ambassador to Constantinople - it is her work with smallpox inoculation that is brought to the forefront in a new biography. The Pioneering Life of Mary Wortley Montagu: Scientist and Feminist, by Jo Willett, reveals how the diarist went from an independent child who taught herself Latin to a medical campaigner who broug...
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