Talk:Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

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http://www.foundersofscience.net/lady_mary_montagu.htm has her letter remarking on variolation "they hold parties ...smallpox"

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I'm not much for genealogy, but I'm confused by Montagu's relation to Henry Fielding. It says here that she's his niece, but is she possibly his aunt? He used her for literary connections, and according to his entry, he's born in 1707 vs her 1689. I guess it's technically possible she's his niece? But could someone explain their genealogy? My brief google research has not given much insight. Lydgate 17:08, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Montague Street, Brooklyn Heights
I've read somewhere that Montague Street in Brooklyn is named for Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Is that correct? If so, it might be mentioned in the main entry. Jim Lacey (talk) 13:33, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

Place of birth
While this article states that Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was born in London the article on Thoresby Hall claim Lady Mary Wortley Montagu as being born there.

Shakespeare reference
I've removed this, as it is simply impossible: her ancestors weren't Montagus (it was her married name). --NellieBlyMobile (talk) 00:26, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

Montagu or Montague ??
What's the correct spelling ? Kintaro (talk) 15:24, 8 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Indeed. The memorial plaque in Lichfield Cathedral (see the photo) has the e, so it seems to have been a variant spelling in her day.  But we really should say something about this in the article.  --   Jack of Oz   [pleasantries]  20:46, 23 July 2015 (UTC)

Avoidance of Plagiarism
This article still contains a large amount of text from the EB1911 article. As such it has to be properly attributed including inline citations -- See the guideline Copying material from free sources -- PBS (talk) 09:03, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

Exact birth date?
Her birth date of 15 May is sourced to Isobel Grundy (1999). But I can't confirm that citation. Here, all she says is "April or May".

Exactly where does the specific date of 15 May come from? --  Jack of Oz   [pleasantries]  21:02, 23 July 2015 (UTC)

Image Added
I noticed that there weren't any images of Montagu's literary works, so I uploaded and added an image of the title page of The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, which was published in 1837. LesBrooks (talk) 21:55, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

Smallpox inoculation - suspected digression
Is not the reference to the elimination of smallpox in Russia in the 20th century, long after her lifetime, digressive to this article? After all, it was achieved after Russia made vaccination (not inoculation) mandatory. Would Lady Wortley Montagu even have been celebrated under the Communist regime? A regime the article text describes as 'the new people's government' in the article text - sounds like political POV here from a Soviet inspired source. The material belongs more to an article on the history of smallpox vaccination and eradication.Cloptonson (talk) 06:51, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
 * I removed a similar bit about the suggestion by a Soviet official for a global smallpox eradication campaign. We do not need that level of detail about the 20th century eradication campaign in this article. LastDodo (talk) 14:23, 2 September 2022 (UTC)

Worth having a brief bit on previous medical history
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4078488/

"The evidence indicates that smallpox inoculation was practiced in China in around 1000 AD and in India, Turkey, and probably Africa as well3,9,10,11,12. The inoculation, ‘the process of injecting an infective agent in a healthy person, which leads to often mild disease and preventing that individual from future serious disease’ was common in India12." Htrowsle (talk) 09:36, 5 December 2023 (UTC)