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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

1689 - 1762

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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (née Pierrepont; 15 May 1689 – 21 August 1762) was an English aristocrat, medical pioneer, writer, and poet. Born in 1689, Lady Mary spent her early life in England. In 1712, Lady Mary married Edward Wortley Montagu, who later served as the British ambassador to the Sublime Porte. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu has received more than 1,167,339 page views. Her biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Lady Mary Wortley Montagu is the 1,008th most popular writer (up from 1,406th in 2019), the 798th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,102nd in 2019) and the 98th most popular British Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu ranks 1,008 out of 5,755Before her are Bernardino de Sahagún, Jean Moréas, Bernard Cornwell, Andrew of Crete, Nicolas Chamfort, and Ernesto Sabato. After her are Namdev, Johannes Tauler, Gaius Valerius Flaccus, Comtessa de Dia, Dobrica Ćosić, and Tibor Sekelj.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1689, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu ranks 5Before her are Montesquieu, John V of Portugal, Samuel Richardson, and Jacques I, Prince of Monaco. After her are Samuel Bellamy, Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, Prince William, Duke of Gloucester, Archduchess Maria Magdalena of Austria, Blas de Lezo, Alexis Piron, and Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer. Among people deceased in 1762, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu ranks 10Before her are Crown Prince Sado, James Bradley, Archduchess Maria Johanna Gabriela of Austria, Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille, Emperor Momozono, and Francesco Geminiani. After her are Princess Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Shah Waliullah Dehlawi, Jean Calas, Tobias Mayer, Stanisław Poniatowski, and Dorothea Erxleben.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu ranks 798 out of 7,765Before her are John Ray (1627), Richard Stone (1913), Stephen Gray (1666), Archibald Hill (1886), David Cameron (1966), and Bernard Cornwell (1944). After her are John Vane (1927), Wentworth Miller (1972), Edgar F. Codd (1923), Rob Roy MacGregor (1671), Francis Hutcheson (1694), and David McCallum (1933).

Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu ranks 98Before her are Ben Jonson (1572), John Fowles (1926), E. M. Forster (1879), Henry Fielding (1707), John William Polidori (1795), and Bernard Cornwell (1944). After her are James Hadley Chase (1906), Jerome K. Jerome (1859), Edmund Spenser (1552), Robert Graves (1895), W. H. Auden (1907), and Rosamunde Pilcher (1924).