Turkish Embassy Letters
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Turkish Embassy Letters is an 18th-century collection of letters by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu that vividly depict Ottoman society and are celebrated as an early, influential work of female travel writing.
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| Turkish Embassy Letters canonical | 1 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
18th-century literature
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epistolary travel literature ⓘ letter collection ⓘ non-fiction book ⓘ |
| author | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| depicts |
Islamic customs
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Ottoman court NERFINISHED ⓘ Turkish baths ⓘ women’s spaces in the Ottoman Empire ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1763 ⓘ |
| firstPublisher | Becket and De Hondt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
epistolary literature
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travel writing ⓘ women’s writing ⓘ |
| hasForm | letters ⓘ |
| hasPerspective | first-person narrative ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
cultural relativism
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female autonomy ⓘ health and medicine ⓘ marriage and family ⓘ religion and tolerance ⓘ smallpox inoculation ⓘ |
| influenced |
Anglophone representations of the Ottoman Empire
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later women travel writers ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Enlightenment ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Augustan literature ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Istanbul
NERFINISHED
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Ottoman Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ Ottoman society ⓘ cross-cultural encounter ⓘ diplomacy ⓘ gender roles ⓘ harem life ⓘ |
| narrativeVoice | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
challenge to European Orientalist stereotypes
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early female perspective on the Ottoman Empire ⓘ influence on later women’s travel writing ⓘ vivid ethnographic description ⓘ |
| numberOfLetters | 50+ ⓘ |
| originalMedium | private correspondence ⓘ |
| placeOfWriting |
Constantinople
NERFINISHED
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Ottoman Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationStatus | posthumously published ⓘ |
| relatedWork | Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setIn |
Adrianople
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Vienna NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| targetAudienceAtPublication | British reading public ⓘ |
| timeOfWriting | 1716–1718 ⓘ |
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