![]() ‘Her letters have an immediacy and vivacity that remains as fresh as the mosaics on the ancient monuments she saw and the eastern gardens that gave her such delight. ![]() ‘… one of the best narrative travel books ever written by an Englishwoman.’ Dervla Murphy In her own words, ‘No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure more lasting.’ She is one of the first modern travel writers and still one of the best, studying and recording a lived culture through its own values and its own language. The document must then be translated and notarized in Turkey. The consent letter should be apostilled and written in the same format. For two years she lovingly observed Ottoman society as a participant, with affection, intelligence and an astonishing lack of prejudice. How to Use a Notary to Draft a Consent Letter If you are unable to visit the Turkish embassy, you can have the letter legalized at your nearest notary public. Her letters remain as fresh as the day they were penned: enchanted by her discoveries of the life of Turkish women behind the veil, by Arabic poetry and by contemporary medical practices - including inoculation. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1716 she travelled across Europe to take up residence in Istanbul as the wife of the British ambassador. Mary Montagu was ‘one of the most extraordinary characters in the world.’ She was a self-educated intellectual, a free spirit, a radical, a feminist but also an entitled aristocrat and a society wit with powerful friends at court. With a new biographical afterword by Dervla Murphy ![]()
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