books Archives - Devonia Road https://devoniaroad.co.uk/tag/books/ Television • Books • Business Wed, 06 Apr 2022 10:39:14 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.15 Oxford Literary Festival 2022 https://devoniaroad.co.uk/oxlitfest/ Wed, 06 Apr 2022 10:31:29 +0000 https://devoniaroad.co.uk/?p=1274 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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]]> Wellcome Collection https://devoniaroad.co.uk/wellcome-collection/ Fri, 26 Mar 2021 08:59:19 +0000 https://devoniaroad.co.uk/?p=1149 Jo will be interviewed by Danny Rees from the Wellcome Collection about Lady Mary on Thursday April 29. Tickets available.

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]]> Lady Mary and Lady Henrietta https://devoniaroad.co.uk/lady-mary-and-lady-henrietta/ Fri, 19 Mar 2021 10:12:59 +0000 https://devoniaroad.co.uk/?p=1141 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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]]> 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.

  • Lady Mary
  • Lady Henreitta

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]]> Mary Wortley Montagu is on Instagram! https://devoniaroad.co.uk/mary-wortley-montagu-is-on-instagram/ Mon, 15 Feb 2021 13:00:27 +0000 https://devonia.essence-creative.co.uk/?p=1043 You can start following @LadyMWM on Instagram to trace the journey of her remarkable 18thcentury life. https://www.instagram.com/jowillett_biographer/

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]]> You can start following @LadyMWM on Instagram to trace the journey of her remarkable 18thcentury life.

https://www.instagram.com/jowillett_biographer/

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]]> Culture Vultured recommends https://devoniaroad.co.uk/culture-vultured-recommends/ Mon, 15 Feb 2021 12:46:52 +0000 https://devonia.essence-creative.co.uk/?p=1038 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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]]> 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: 

The 18th-century aristocracy and an early experiment in immunology

#vaccinepioneer  #ladymary

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]]> The Pioneering Life of Mary Wortley Montagu https://devoniaroad.co.uk/the-pioneering-life-of-mary-wortley-montagu/ Mon, 15 Feb 2021 12:43:51 +0000 https://devonia.essence-creative.co.uk/?p=1034 Delighted to announce the publication of my book THE PIONEERING LIFE OF MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU 30 March 2021.

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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.

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