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- Title
The Public Life of a Woman of Wit and Quality: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and the Vogue for Smallpox Inoculation.
- Authors
Barnes, Diana
- Abstract
An essay is presented on English writer Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and her role as a pioneer in smallpox inoculation in the 18th century. It examines her reputation, her social position as a Whig and an aristocrat, and her standing in literary circles. The author notes that Montagu had her daughter inoculated by means of engrafting, or variolation, a method she encountered while living in Constantinople, Turkey. The opposition of doctor William Wagstaffe to smallpox inoculations is considered.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; MONTAGU, Mary Wortley, Lady, 1689-1762; HISTORY of smallpox vaccination; BRITISH women authors; WHIG Party (Great Britain); WAGSTAFFE, William; 18TH century medical history; HISTORY of political parties; 21ST century (Literary period)
- Publication
Feminist Studies, 2012, Vol 38, Issue 2, p330
- ISSN
0046-3663
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1353/fem.2012.0023