Record Number: 12538
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Thus, dear sister, I have given you a very particular, and (I am afraid you'll think) a tedious account, of this part of my travels. It was not an affectation of shewing my reading, that has made me tell you some little scraps of the history of the towns I have passed through.'
Century:1700-1799
Date:Until: 30 Jan 1717
Country:Hungary
Timen/a
Place:n/a
Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Female
Date of Birth:26 May 1689
Socio-Economic Group:Royalty / aristocracy
Occupation:Daughter of the fifth Earl of Kingston upon Hull. Wife of the British ambassador to Constantinople.
Religion:Christian
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:Hungary
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
nee Lady Mary Pierrepoint. Known by this name until her 1712 marriage to Edward Wortley Montagu.
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:[history]
Genre:History
Form of Text:Unknown
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:12538
Source:Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu
Editor:R. Brimley Johnson
Title:Letters from the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 1709 to 1762
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1906
Vol:n/a
Page:98
Additional Comments:
Letter from Wortley Montagu to her sister the Countess of Mar. Taken from the Kessinger Publishing Reprint of 1906 edition published by J.M.Dent.
Citation:
Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu, R. Brimley Johnson (ed.), Letters from the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 1709 to 1762, (London, 1906), p. 98, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=12538, accessed: 13 May 2025
Additional Comments:
Letter written whilst Wortley Montagu was in Peterwaradin, in Hungary.
