Although Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's is chiefly famous as one of the great letter-writers of the eighteenth century she has other claims to importance and distinction: as a traveller and expatriate, as a feminist concerned with women's education and marriage, and as a writer who expressed her ideas in a variety of literary forms other than the informal letter. - Introduction

Mary Pierrepont was born in London in 1689, the first child of Evelyn Lierrepont and his wife, Lady Mary Fielding. - Part 1