“I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature. My attachments are always excessively strong.”
About Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
May 1689–21 August 1762
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, born Mary Pierrepont in May 1689 and dead on 21 August 1762, was one of the most formidable and variously gifted figures of the eighteenth century: poet, letter writer, satirist, aristocrat, traveller, political observer, mother, friend, adversary, and advocate for a medical practice that…