The Turkish Embassy Letters Book

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: A Brief Chronology

A Note on the Text

The Turkish Embassy Letters

Appendix A: Front Matter to 1763 Edition

Appendix B: Further Correspondence and Verse Relating to Turkey

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu to Mrs. Frances Hewet

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu to Edward Wortley Montagu

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, The Genuine Copy of a Letter written from Constantinople by an English Lady, Who Was Lately in Turkey

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, "Verses, Written January 1718 in the Chiosk of the British Palace at Pera overlooking the city of Constantinople, Dec. 26, 1718"

Alexander Pope's Correspondence with Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Letters from Edward Wortley to Joseph Addison

Appendix C: Reception

The Annual Register (1763)

Monthly Review (May 1763)

From Baron de Tott, "Preliminary Discourse," Memoirs of Baron de Tott

From Lady Elizabeth Craven, Memoirs of the Margravine of Anspach

From Fatma Aliye, "Madam Montagu," Hanımlara Mahsus Gazete

From Ahmet Refik, "Introduction" from Sark Mektuplari [Letters from the East]

Appendix D: The Smallpox Inoculation Controversy

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, "Saturday. The Small Pox. Flavia," from Six Town Eclogues. With Some Other Poems

[Lady Mary Wortley Montagu], "A Plain Account of the Inoculating of the Small Pox by a Turkey Merchant," Flying Post (13 September 1722)

Anonymous, A New Essay on the Small-Pox with a View to Preserve this Nation from the Infection of that Distemper

From Voltaire, Letters concerning the English Nation

Horace Walpole to Lady Elizabeth Craven (2 January 1787)

Celebrating Lady Mary's Struggle to Introduce Smallpox Vaccination to England, This Monument in Lichfield Cathedral, Staffordshire, Was Erected in 1789

Appendix E: Turkish Women and the Harem

From Richard Knolles, The Generalle Historie of the Turkes

From George Sandys, A Relation of a Journey Begun an: Dom: 1610

From Robert Withers (Ottaviano Bon), A Description of the Grand Signor's Seraglio or Turkish Emperour's Court

From Sir Paul Rycaut, The Present State of the Ottoman Empire

From Aaron Hill, A Full and Just Account of the Present State of the Ottoman Empire in All Its Branches

Appendix F: Eastern Tales and Orientalist Fictions

From Miguel Cervantes, The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote

From Antoine Galland, Arabian Nights Entertainments: Consisting of One Thousand and One Stories, Told by The Sultaness of the Indies

From Joseph Addison, "The Vision of Mirzah" The Spectator (1 September 1711)

From Penelope Aubin, The Strange Adventures of the Count de Vinevil and His Family

From Daniel Defoe, The Fortunate Mistress

From Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

Appendix G: Descriptions of Ottoman Governance and Society

Letter from Safiye Sultana, Consort of Murad III and Mother of Mehmed III, to Queen Elizabeth

From Evliya Çelebi, Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa in the Seventeenth Century

From Sir Paul Rycaut, The Present State of the Ottoman Empire

From Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws

From Sir James Porter, Observations on the Religion, Law, Government and Manners of the Turks

From Baron François de Tott, "Preliminary Discourse," Memoirs of Baron de Tott

Appendix H: Accounts of Islam

From Evliya Çelebi, Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa in the Seventeenth Century

From Sir Paul Rycaut, The Present State of the Ottoman Empire

From George Sale, "Preliminary Discourse" to The Koran, Commonly Called The Alcoran of Mohammed

From David Hume, "The Natural History of Religion" in Four Dissertations

From Sir James Porter, Observations on the Religion, Law, Government, and Manners of the Turks

From Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Appendix I: Illustrations

Jean Baptiste Vanmour, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu with her Son, Edward Wortley Montagu, and Attendants (c. 1717)

Jonathan Richardson (attr. to), Lady Mary Wortley Montagu in Turkish Dress with Page (c.1725)

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Le Bain turc (1862)

Rayhana, Daughter of Kab ibn Malik, Neglected by her Husband, from the Life of the Prophet (Siyar-i nabi, Turkish and Arabic text) (1594-95)

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