… Practices > Mobility Keywords Education 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 … sociable practices to debunk the prejudiced myths and stereotypes against Oriental women. In one of her most famous letters, she recounts her visiting a bathing house and meeting some ‘two hundred women’, ‘all being in the state of … and civility – from British sociable places (‘the assemblies’) to the Turkish hot 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 …