The Public Life of a Woman of Wit and Quality: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and the Vogue for Smallpox Inoculation (2012)
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.
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