Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

MONTAGU, LADY MARY WORTLEY, an English author; the eldest daughter of Evelyn, Duke of Kingston; born in Thoresby, Nottinghamshire, England, about 1689. In 1712 she married Edward Wortley Montagu, whom she accompanied in 1716 on his embassy to Constantinople, from which place she wrote “Letters” to Pope, Addison, and others. She also first introduced the practice of inoculation for smallpox into England. Her “Letters” place her at the head of female epistolary writers in Great Britain. She died in England, Aug. 21, 1762.