Lady Mary is today chiefly remembered for her letters, particularly her Turkish Embassy Letters describing her travels to the Ottoman Empire, as wife to the British ambassador to Turkey, which Billie Melman describes as "the very first example of a secular work by a woman about the Muslim Orient". After her return to England, Lady Mary devoted her attention to the upbringing of her family before dying of cancer in 1762. During her time there, Lady Mary wrote extensively on her experience as a woman in Ottoman Istanbul. Lady Mary joined her husband on the Ottoman excursion, where she was to spend the next two years of her life.
In 1712, Lady Mary married Edward Wortley Montagu, who later served as the British ambassador to the Sublime Porte. Born in 1689, Lady Mary spent her early life in England. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (née Pierrepont – 21 August 1762) was an English aristocrat, writer, and poet. Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull (father).
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