Thirty miles away, at Wharncliffe Lodge, lived the Honorable Sidney Montagu (second son ... the barbarous community, and Lady Mary is the perfect gossip. Mr. Wortley’s early doubts of her ...

But far fewer have heard of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. She was the socialite whose pioneering inoculation experiments laid the groundwork for Jenner’s discovery, but whose contribution is all ...

In 1762, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu died of breast cancer after gaining notoriety for her work with another deadly disease. Mary grew up in a wealthy family in eighteenth-century England, where she ...

The Pioneering Life of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Scientist and Feminist is published by Pen & Sword at £25 ...

The time is surely right for the people of Twickenham to commemorate Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. The Pioneering Life of Mary Wortley Montagu: Scientist and Feminist by Jo Willett is out now (£25 ...

I keep thinking about a woman I’d read about when I was in college. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, who was born in 1689 and lived until 1762, was the brilliant daughter of a wealthy family who ...

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Her name was Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and she had learned a technique from women in the distant Ottoman Empire that could stop the pox in its tracks. What happened next is a tale of politics and ...

But far fewer have heard of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. She was the socialite whose pioneering inoculation experiments laid the groundwork for Jenner’s discovery, but whose contribution is all but ...

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