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… French Revolution Travel Women In her preface to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s Letters Written, during her Travels in Europe, Asia and Africa (1762), Mary Astell praises a feminine epistolary style devoid of English prejudices that could … bath. 1 . Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M_y W_y M_e: Written, during her Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa, vol. 1 (London: B. Dodd, 1776), p. vii. 2 . Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, The Turkish Embassy … altered, that, par son teint boueux et apparence noirâtre, e lle ressemble plus à la Liberté d’Afrique qu’à celle de l’ Europe ’ (Beaumont 200). Sociable practices as invented or cultivated during the French revolution are portrayed as …
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