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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu – Nottingham’s First Rebel Writer: by Georgina Lock
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was born in 1689 at Holme Pierrepont, Rushcliffe. The eldest daughter of Lord Kingston and Lady Mary Fielding, she spent much of her childhood at Thoresby Hall, teaching herself Latin. Her elegant translations, romances and satirical verses combined with being her father’s hostess (her mother died when she was four) to build her reputation as a wit. Lord Byron, ninety-nine years her junior, called her ‘charming’. He wouldn’t have read her diaries, which her daughter burned, but her letters are a fascinating witness of her life and times.
Lady Mary Elopes
In 1712, escaping her father’s choice of a wealthy aristocrat, Lady Mary eloped with, and married, Mr Edward Wortley Montagu. Her clandestine courtship letters (less passionate than her letters to his sister) propose travel together to maintain ‘esteem’. Newly-wedded, it was her husband who travelled, chasing elect
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Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762)
Born in 1689, Mary was the eldest child of Evelyn Pierrepont (1667–1726), and Lady Mary Feilding (1668/9–1692). Raised initially by her maternal grandmother and subsequently, from 1698, by her father at Thoresby Hall, Nottinghamshire, she claims to have embarked upon the study of Latin when—in her own words—’everyone thought I was reading nothing but romances’.1 Following the death in 1710 of her friend and correspondent Anne Wortley, Anne’s brother Edward Wortley Montagu (1678–1761) continued this correspondence and, despite a number of family objections and pressure from her family on Lady Mary to marry another, as well as a rumoured ‘attachment’ to a man unable to marry her, he and Lady Mary eloped to Salisbury in the summer of 1712. The couple’s son, Edward Wortley Montagu the younger (1713–1776) was born nine mon
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
English writer and poet (1689–1762)
For other people named Mary Montagu, see Mary Montagu (disambiguation).
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (née Pierrepont; 15 May 1689 – 21 August 1762) was an Englisharistocrat, medical pioneer, writer, and poet. Born in 1689, Lady Mary spent her early life in England. In 1712, Lady Mary married Edward Wortley Montagu, who later served as the British ambassador to the Sublime Porte. Lady Mary joined her husband on the Ottoman excursion, where she was to spend the next two years of her life. During her time there, Lady Mary wrote extensively on her experience as a woman in Ottoman Constantinople. After her return to England, Lady Mary devoted her attention to the upbringing of her family before dying of cancer in 1762.
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