Oxford Literary Festival 2022
This has to be the most beautiful venue ever for Jo’s Lady Mary talk.
The Bodleian Divinity School. Thanks OxLitFest.
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This has to be the most beautiful venue ever for Jo’s Lady Mary talk.
The Bodleian Divinity School. Thanks OxLitFest.
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Jo will be interviewed by Danny Rees from the Wellcome Collection about Lady Mary on Thursday April 29. Tickets available.
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Delighted to be giving an online talk about the lifelong friendship between Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Lady Henrietta Cavendish Holles at Welbeck Abbey at midday on Friday 18 June.
Two memorable women.
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You can start following @LadyMWM on Instagram to trace the journey of her remarkable 18thcentury life.
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Very glad Culture Vultured has chosen THE PIONEERING LIFE OF MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU as one of 10 new non-fiction books to escape with in 2021:
https://culturedvultures.com/new-non-fiction-books-2021/
And Lady Mary has also been remembered in The History of Parliament blog:
#vaccinepioneer #ladymary
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Delighted to announce the publication of my book THE PIONEERING LIFE OF MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU 30 March 2021. Details of launch mid-April to follow. Timed around the 300th anniversary of her ground-breaking move to inoculate her only daughter against smallpox – the first person in the West to do so. #vaccinepioneer #ladymary
Here’s the book cover.