Lady Mary Pierrepont was coming from an aristocrat family. She was an English writer and she was known for the letters she wrote while she was traveling. She became Lady Mary Wortley Montagu when she elopes against her father's wishes with Edward Wortley Montague, who was named ambassador to Constantinople. Because she contracts the smallpox, she decided to follow her husband in his travels, claiming that the change of climate would be benefic for her health. It wasn’t casual for woman to travel alone and poorly perceived by society. One of the famous one was “The Turkish Embassy Letters”, she wrote this letter while she was traveling to the Ottoman court with her husband. Also, at this time woman were not published but it didn’t stop her …show more content…
She thus played an important role in the fight against smallpox and the development of the vaccine. In her second letter to Sarah Chriswell, she is describing the solution that Turkish people found to the smallpox that made ravages in her country. She declares: “The small pox so fatal and so general amongst us is here entirely harmless by the invention of engrafting.” She also describe so of the process used to that inoculation: “She immediately rips open that you offer to her with a large needle and puts into the vein as much venom can lie upon the head of her needle, and after binds up the little wound with hollow bit of shell, and in this manner opens four or five veins.” (Montagu 179) The last letter is addressed to her sister Lady Mar. At the occasion of a dinner with the Grand Vizier’s lady, she had the opportunity to observe culture and customs which she is describing in her letter. She is narrating this moment, describing the architecture, the guests, her hosts and the magnificence of the dinner. She also insists her admiration for the richest of the scene and the people (even the slaves and maids). In the last part of the letter, she emphasizes the lady:”To say all in a word, our most celebrated English beauties would vanish near her.” (Montagu 181) Lady Montagu as a very large panel of writing; she can write about dress styles and fashion to some correspondents, about antiquities and architecture to others, and exchange verses in
The more fake or failed lymph failed to protect people against smallpox, the more cowpox fell into ill repute. “While the deluded patient vainly supposed himself secured from the attacks of the smallpox, his imaginary safety leads him into situations where his life is endangered,” Waterhouse wrote, leaving vaccination open to doubt or “contempt”. The worst failure occurred at Marblehead, Massachusetts, which suffered a disastrous smallpox outbreak during a vaccination campaign. Using “virus” that his seafaring son had taken from a pustule on the arm of a sailor vaccinated in London, Dr. Elisha Story vaccinated his daughter on October 2, 1800. Two weeks later she broke out with what Story believed was cowpox but was actually smallpox. Waterhouse was meanwhile supplying Story with vaccine that was either contaminated or inactive. The epidemic eventually sickened 1,000 people, killing 68 of
The story "Letter to her Daughter" was written by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. It is about the education of her granddaughter. She uses many devices such as allusion and flashbacks to convey her views on the role of her knowledge. She describes the knowledge is a important quality for woman to have. She tells how knowledge helps a lady with her everyday affairs. To show all of her knowledge she alludes to Prior, Pope, and Randolph. Often throughout the story there are flashbacks to show the times that Lady Mary's knowledge came in handy. Lady Mary writes a letter to her daughter to educate her granddaughter well. The letter stated that any lady should be full of knowledge and can become knowledgeable by reading books, "Which carry the precise,
The poem “My Last Duchess” is a historical event that involves the Duke of Ferrara and Alfonso who lived in the 16th century. Robert Browning "My Last Duchess" presents a narrative about a recently widowed Duke who talks with an emissary had come to an arranged marriage with another lady from a powerful and wealthy family. In the perspective of Duke, power and wealth were integral in marriage and was determined to be married to a wealthy lady from a famous family. As the Duke orients the emissary through the palace, he stops and shows a portrait of the late Duchess who was a lovely and young girl. The Duke then begins by stating information about the picture and then to the Duchess. Duke claims that the Duchess flirted with everyone and did not appreciate the history of the family: “gift of a nine hundred years old name.”(33) However, when an individual continues to read the poem, it is evident that the Duke played an important role in killing the lady. Duke states that “he gave commands; / Then all smiles stopped together”(45-46) he used these words to define the death of his beloved Duchess. The aim of the essay is to analyze literary devices that emphasize the content of the poem, which includes rhetorical questions, exclamation mark, and em dash.
“A Communication which the Author had to London, Before She made Her Will” features Isabella Whitney’s reasons for leaving London (and in doing so vocalizes her frustrations with the city). The poem acts as a preface to Whitney’s “The Manner of Her Will..”, which was written as a satire that involved bequeathing parts of London she does not own to Londoners. It is arguable to say that these works contained a certain degree of autobiographical material because she lived among the common people. Isabella Whitney pioneered her field of women poets. While a lot of her practices (familiar allusions, exaggerations, ballad metre) were common for contemporary male authors of the mid-sixteenth century, as a woman she was setting a new precedent. “A Communication…” is successful for several reasons: it plays on the complaint genre and in doing so personifies London as a poor lover, it skillfully uses language, and it follows with Whitney’s credit motif (autobiographical in nature).
His invention of vaccination against smallpox was the medical breakthrough that saved the
says, and how he says it. In “My Last Duchess”, the speaker of the monologue addresses
Despite the disappearance of the plague, smallpox still ran rampant throughout the world. The terrible disease continued to kill millions of Europeans every year. An inoculation created in the early 1700s was a somewhat successful solution and thousands of Europeans underwent the operation to engraft their skin with smallpox (Doc 2). However, new, more efficient solution came in the form of Edward Jenner, who created the first smallpox vaccine by collecting cowpox from an infected person and inserting it into another individual’s arm (Doc 6). Edward Jenner’s new vaccine was virtually harmless and was the most efficient vaccination to date. The smallpox vaccine eradicated the disease in Europe and eventually, the entire world. Smallpox was the last great disease that Europeans faced and its elimination allowed Europe’s population to grow and
In the book, “Survival of the Sickest”, Sharon Moalem forms the basis of how vaccine originated to become a way of combatting the most dangerous diseases in the world. It began with a discovery from a man named Edward Jenner, a doctor from Gloucestershire county in England, where he began to understand a strange pattern when people who were immune to cowpox were struggling with smallpox and vice-versa. He started to test his findings through a small experiment where he injected cow pox into a group of young children and he was surprised to see that their bodies built immunity towards smallpox and supported his findings on the bizarre immunity of people towards either the smallpox or the cowpox but not to both. The rest of the chapter explains complex concepts
Jenner’s discovery of the link between cowpox and smallpox was significant to the development of a vaccine for smallpox. However, it can be argued that Jenner and his discovery were not enough on their own to bring medical progress. The factors Scientific thinking, Government Communication and Changing attitudes played a major and important role to bring medical progress.
Inoculation of smallpox was an experiment of the eighteenth century which was the practice of infecting people with mild cases of smallpox so they could strengthen their immune system against the deadly cases of smallpox. The results of the experiment confirmed that it worked because there was an epidemic in the 1720s and people with the treatment did not get infected. This is relevant because it emphasizes the ways people back then would experiment with things having no idea if they worked or not. Pgs
One of the major health event happen in the 1800s is when Edward Jenner, a english doctor create vaccination to cure smallpox. Edward jenner was born in may 17 1749 and died on january 26 1823 at the age of 74 from a massive stroke. He have safe many life. Smallpox is a contagious viral disease. It cause fever and left scar. Before smallpox is being cure over 400,000 unlucky people die each year from it. SmallPox have been all over the place in the old days. It was first being seen in china in the 4th century.It being said that every 3 out of 10 people died from it and who ever survive will have scar left on them. He thought of the idea when he know a dairymaid who said “i shall never have smallpox for i have had cowpox. I shall never
Written by Robert Browning, “My Last Duchess” is a poem about an egocentric Duke who has a painting of his last wife upon the wall and is trying to impress an ambassador who is negotiating his next marriage. Although it is obvious that the Duke is trying to persuade this ambassador, however, this is where the first mystery is created. It is almost as if he is trying to persuade no one more than himself.
During the 17th century, the average woman was depicted as an uneducated housewife who lived for the sole purpose of pleasing her husband and tending to his every need. Throughout this time period, women were often denied the right to a proper education, the ability to marry for love, and general control over their own lives. Although she was commonly encouraged to marry a wealthy suitor and subjected to constant surveillance, Dorothy Osborne’s intelligence, uncanny literary abilities, and consciousness of the society she lived in led her to become one of the most influential writers of the 17th century. After meeting and falling madly in love with Sir William Temple in St. Malo, the two were forced to secretly communicate through love letters
In late summer of 1716, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu set out in the company of her husband and young son from London on an overland journey to Istanbul. That fall, she traveled over the Germanic regions of the sprawling Hapsburg Empire, and by winter, they had crossed the frozen plains of Eastern Europe into Ottoman held territory. By spring, Lady Mary found herself happily ensconced in the old capital of Adrianople. Surrounded by the magical splendor of the exotic east and swept up in scenes from a Hellenistic mythohistory, she wrote regularly and lavishly to her friends back home, detailing the beauty of her strange new world. These letters would form the basis of her posthumously published her Turkish Embassy Letters, still regarded as some of the finest examples of the familiar letter. Drawing on traditions ranging from Reconstruction satire to classical Greek poetry, Lady Mary’s writings provide an unparalleled depth of insight into a unique moment of east-west cultural contact. This study in contrast is what makes Montagu’s writings on feminine beauty the perfect dichotomy through which to study the complex dualities and multiplicities of trans-imperial interaction.
The Duke takes control of the situation entirely as he is the only speaker throughout the poem and his way of speaking leaves no scope for interruption, by the listener. The way he addresses his listener, “That’s my last duchess”, calls attention to the peculiarity of his designation which he indicates in a very proud manner. The apparent pauses throughout the poem, shown by dashes, indicate hesitation as the Duke considers what to say. This clearly suggests his manipulative attitude. As soon as he points towards the standing portrait of his last wife, he asks his listener to sit down –“Will’t please you sit and look at her?” His way of asking is not very polite and is more of a command which shows the psychology of a man with power.