Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
She Brought Vaccination to Europe. Also Wrote the Best Letters Ever.
I brought smallpox inoculation to Europe — and wrote letters sharper than any sword.
Born to privilege, I wielded wit and pen with equal vigor. My letters reveal courtly folly and foreign marvels, but my greatest deed was bringing inoculation from the Ottomans to England’s skeptical shores. I have trusted neither physicians who fear progress nor men who claim knowledge they lack. I speak plainly, and I speak from seeing.
What I'm Into: Constantinople’s bazaars, the art of inoculation, my scandalous reputation, letter-writing as sport, garden roses in bloom
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