Podcasts about Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was an English aristocrat, medical pioneer, writer, and poet. She learned about the practice of smallpox inoculation while in the Ottoman Empire, and lobbied to bring the practice to England. We're joined by Sean Lusk, author of A Woman of Opinion, a new novel about Mary's life. Click here to buy a copy of A Woman of Opinion. — Hilary Mantel's essay on the importance of historical fiction. — Get 15% off all the gorgeous jewellery and accessories at common.era.com/vulgar or go to commonera.com and use code VULGAR at checkout — Get Vulgar History merch at vulgarhistory.com/store (best for US shipping) and vulgarhistory.redbubble.com (better for international shipping) — Support Vulgar History on Patreon  — Vulgar History is an affiliate of Bookshop.org, which means that a small percentage of any books you click through and purchase will come back to Vulgar History as a commission. Use this link to shop there and support Vulgar History. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Descubra a intrigante conexão entre o gênio do Iluminismo, Voltaire, e sua associação com a Maçonaria em seus últimos dias. Infância e educação (1694-1711): François-Marie Arouet, mais tarde conhecido como Voltaire, nasceu em 21 de novembro de 1694, em Paris, França. Ele era o caçula de cinco filhos em uma família de classe média e seu pai era funcionário do governo. A mãe de Voltaire faleceu quando ele tinha apenas sete anos. Criado em uma família religiosa, ele recebeu uma educação jesuíta no estimado Collège Louis-le-Grand, onde estudou retórica, filosofia e teologia. Durante seu tempo no Collège, Voltaire foi exposto a uma variedade de discussões intelectuais, incluindo as ciências populares e as obras de filósofos como Pierre Bayle e John Locke. Essas influências mais tarde se tornariam instrumentais na formação de suas ideias filosóficas, enraizadas no ceticismo e na tolerância. Apesar da insistência de seu pai para que ele seguisse a carreira de advogado, a verdadeira paixão de Voltaire era escrever. Iniciou o seu percurso literário com a composição da sua primeira tragédia, “ Édipe ”, ainda na escola. Sua paixão pela escrita e suas habilidades de pensamento crítico tornaram-se evidentes em uma idade jovem e mais tarde contribuiriam significativamente para seu sucesso literário. Carreira Inicial e Prisão (1711-1718) Após completar seus estudos, Voltaire seguiu brevemente os desejos de seu pai e trabalhou como secretário do embaixador francês na Holanda. No entanto, logo abandonou a carreira diplomática e voltou a Paris para seguir sua verdadeira vocação de escritor. Voltaire tornou-se conhecido por sua perspicácia e abordagem satírica das questões sociais e políticas. Suas opiniões bem articuladas sobre religião, governo e outros tópicos lhe renderam a reputação de pensador destemido e influente. Infelizmente, suas críticas implacáveis às normas sociais e ao governo levaram à sua prisão na Bastilha em 1717. Voltaire foi acusado de difamação contra o regente da França, Philippe II, duque de Orléans. Ele passou quase um ano na prisão, período durante o qual escreveu sua peça trágica, “Oedipe”. Libertado em 1718, Voltaire rapidamente ganhou destaque como dramaturgo e poeta. Sucesso literário e defesa das liberdades civis (1718-1733) Na década seguinte, Voltaire alcançou um sucesso literário significativo, produzindo obras de várias formas, incluindo peças teatrais, poemas, ensaios, obras históricas e tratados científicos. Seu talento multifacetado o ajudou a emergir como uma das principais figuras literárias do Iluminismo francês. No cerne das obras de Voltaire está sua defesa inabalável das liberdades civis. Ele era um firme defensor da liberdade de expressão, liberdade de religião e da separação entre igreja e estado. Ele criticou a estreita aliança entre a igreja e o estado, que ele acreditava impedir o progresso da ciência e promover a ignorância, o fanatismo e a perseguição. Suas perspectivas sobre essas questões alimentaram sua missão de educar as massas e melhorar as condições sociais. Os esforços de defesa de Voltaire se concentraram em desafiar dogmas intelectuais, promover a tolerância e abordar injustiças cometidas por poderes religiosos e políticos. Seu compromisso incansável com essas causas contribuiu significativamente para a fundação do movimento iluminista, que de fato mudaria o mundo. Exílio de Voltaire na Grã-Bretanha (1726-1728) Após uma disputa contenciosa com o Chevalier de Rohan-Chabot e um período de prisão na Bastilha, Voltaire solicitou o exílio na Inglaterra como punição alternativa. As autoridades francesas concordaram e, em maio de 1726, Voltaire embarcou em uma jornada que influenciaria significativamente seu desenvolvimento intelectual. Após sua chegada à Inglaterra, Voltaire se estabeleceu em Wandsworth e logo formou conexões com figuras proeminentes como Everard Fawkener . Mais tarde, mudou-se para Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, para ficar mais perto de seu editor. Sua estada na Grã-Bretanha permitiu que ele se envolvesse com mentes ilustres, como Alexander Pope, John Gay, Jonathan Swift e Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, entre outros. Voltaire foi especialmente cativado pela monarquia constitucional britânica, que contrastava fortemente com o absolutismo da França. A maior liberdade de expressão e religião da Grã-Bretanha o impressionou profundamente, assim como seus prósperos esforços literários e científicos. Em particular, Voltaire foi inspirado nas obras de William Shakespeare, embora relativamente obscuro na Europa continental na época. Apesar de sua crítica ao desvio de Shakespeare dos padrões neoclássicos, Voltaire apreciou a capacidade do dramaturgo de criar um drama poderoso e envolvente, algo que ele sentiu que faltava nas produções teatrais francesas. À medida que a influência de Shakespeare começou a se espalhar na França, Voltaire procurou desafiá-la com suas peças, tentando mostrar o equilíbrio entre a profundidade emocional e os padrões teatrais clássicos. O tempo de Voltaire na Inglaterra o expôs ao funeral do visionário cientista, Sir Isaac Newton, deixando uma profunda impressão no escritor francês. Inspirado por nomes como Newton e outros intelectuais britânicos, Voltaire começou a publicar ensaios em inglês que afirmavam sua recém-descoberta apreciação pela sociedade e cultura britânicas. Esses primeiros trabalhos incluem “Sobre as Guerras Civis da França, extraídos de manuscritos curiosos” e “Sobre a poesia épica das nações européias, de Homer Down a Milton”. Depois de dois anos e meio morando na Grã-Bretanha, Voltaire voltou para a França com uma visão transformada sobre política, religião e cultura. Suas experiências na Inglaterra moldaram suas perspectivas sobre liberdades civis, tolerância e os méritos de uma monarquia constitucional, influenciando significativamente seus esforços filosóficos e literários subsequentes. Pouco depois de retornar à França, a admiração de Voltaire pela sociedade britânica culminou na publicação de “Cartas sobre a nação inglesa” (publicado como “Lettres philosophiques” em francês). Esta coleção de ensaios incitou controvérsia devido ao seu elogio à monarquia constitucional da Grã-Bretanha, à liberdade religiosa e ao respeito pelos direitos humanos. Apesar de enfrentar censura e reação em sua terra natal, Voltaire permaneceu inabalável em suas convicções, profundamente influenciado por seu tempo na Grã-Bretanha. Relacionamento com Émilie du Châtelet (1733-1749) No início da década de 1730, Voltaire envolveu-se romanticamente com Gabrielle Émilie le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du Châtelet. Émilie du Châtelet era uma potência intelectual e uma matemática brilhante, o que era altamente incomum para uma mulher de seu tempo. Ela foi inflexível sobre seu desejo de se envolver no trabalho intelectual e permaneceu dedicada a suas atividades, apesar da pressão social para cumprir os papéis tradicionais de gênero. Apesar de casada e mãe de três filhos, Émilie du Châtelet embarcou em um relacionamento apaixonado e intelectualmente estimulante com Voltaire. Os dois compartilhavam um intenso amor pela ciência, literatura e filosofia que os ajudou a formar um vínculo profundo. Eles trabalharam juntos em vários projetos científicos e realizaram experimentos em sua casa comum, Cirey, um castelo no nordeste da França. A parceria deles foi, sem dúvida, produtiva. Tanto Du Châtelet quanto Voltaire contribuíram para o trabalho um do outro, enriquecendo seus respectivos campos e ampliando os limites da investigação intelectual. Por exemplo, Du Châtelet traduziu e expandiu o Principia Mathematica de Isaac Newton, que foi fundamental na promoção de suas ideias científicas inovadoras na França. Por sua vez, Voltaire aprimorou suas habilidades em matemática sob sua orientação, incorporando essas ideias em seus escritos filosóficos. Seu relacionamento único, baseado na busca intelectual e no respeito mútuo, persistiu até 1749, quando Émilie du Châtelet faleceu tragicamente devido a complicações decorrentes do parto. Voltaire lamentou-a profundamente e continuou a reconhecer seu notável legado como cientista, matemática e figura influente do Iluminismo. Exílio na Prússia (1750-1753) Na década de 1750, Voltaire recebeu um cobiçado convite do rei Frederico, o Grande, da Prússia, que admirava a sagacidade e o intelecto do escritor. Ansioso por buscar oportunidades intelectuais na corte de Frederico, Voltaire deixou a França e mudou-se para a Prússia. Ele foi calorosamente recebido e os dois homens desfrutaram de uma admiração mútua um pelo outro, discutindo literatura, filosofia e política. No entanto, as tensões começaram a surgir entre Voltaire e Frederick devido a divergências sobre o trabalho criativo, filosofia e assuntos pessoais. O relacionamento inicialmente promissor se deteriorou, levando à saída de Voltaire da Prússia depois de apenas três anos. Vida em Genebra e Ferney (1755-1778) Depois de deixar a Prússia, Voltaire se estabeleceu em Genebra, onde continuou a escrever e apoiar causas justas. No entanto, os rígidos regulamentos na cidade protestante tornaram-se sufocantes, o que o levou a se mudar mais uma vez, desta vez para Ferney, um pequeno vilarejo perto da fronteira franco-suíça. Em sua residência em Ferney, Voltaire passou a maior parte das últimas duas décadas de sua vida. Dedicou-se a várias atividades intelectuais, incluindo a construção de uma grande biblioteca e um teatro. Voltaire também continuou a defender indivíduos perseguidos injustamente, emprestando sua voz e influência à causa deles. Anos Finais e Morte (1778) Em 1778, aos 83 anos, Voltaire voltou a Paris para supervisionar a produção de sua peça “Irene”. Ele foi recebido com grande entusiasmo pelo público parisiense, que o saudou como uma figura heróica do Iluminismo. No entanto, a saúde de Voltaire começou a piorar rapidamente e ele faleceu em 30 de maio de 1778. Apesar de suas críticas ao longo da vida à Igreja, Voltaire, ciente do potencial de seus restos mortais serem descartados em solo não consagrado, foi enterrado secretamente em uma abadia em Champagne. Seu túmulo foi posteriormente transferido para o Panteão de Paris, onde seus restos mortais repousam ao lado de outros grandes pensadores franceses, como Rousseau e Victor Hugo. Obras e legado de Voltaire Ao longo de sua vida, Voltaire escreveu inúmeras obras que deixariam uma impressão duradoura nas gerações futuras. Algumas de suas obras mais notáveis incluem "Candide", "Zadig", "The Age of Louis XIV" e "The Maid of Orleans". A escrita prolífica de Voltaire serviu como testemunho de sua genialidade e de sua dedicação incansável à busca do conhecimento e do progresso. Como pioneiro do Iluminismo e feroz defensor das liberdades civis, as ideias e contribuições de Voltaire deixaram uma marca indelével no mundo. Seu compromisso inabalável em desafiar o status quo e promover a liberdade de pensamento continua sendo um exemplo inspirador para todos os que lutam pelo progresso intelectual e social. Voltaire e a Maçonaria La Loge des Neuf Sœurs (As Nove Irmãs), fundada em Paris em 1776, foi uma proeminente Loja Maçônica Francesa do Grande Oriente da França que foi influente na organização do apoio francês à Revolução Americana. O nome se referia às nove Musas, filhas de Mnemosyne/Memory, patronas das artes e das ciências desde a antiguidade e há muito tempo significativas nos círculos culturais franceses. Em 1778, ano em que Voltaire se tornou membro, Benjamin Franklin e John Paul Jones também foram aceitos. Benjamin Franklin tornou-se Mestre da Loja em 1779 e foi reeleito em 1780. Quando Franklin, após uma longa e influente estada na Europa, retornou à América para participar da redação da Constituição, Thomas Jefferson, um não maçom, assumiu o cargo de enviado americano. Voltaire foi iniciado na loja em 4 de abril de 1778, em Paris; seus regentes foram Benjamin Franklin e Antoine Court de Gébelin. Ele morreu no mês seguinte. Sua filiação, no entanto, simbolizava a independência de espírito que Les Neuf Sœurs representava. Benjamin Franklin, um dos Pais Fundadores dos Estados Unidos, foi uma figura chave na loja. Ele serviu como Venerável Mestre da loja de 1779 a 1781. Sua influência e conexões desempenharam um papel significativo na promoção do relacionamento entre a França e os emergentes Estados Unidos durante a Revolução Americana. Em conclusão, Voltaire, Benjamin Franklin e a Loge des Neuf Sœurs em Paris estavam interligados. Todos faziam parte desta influente Loja Maçônica, que desempenhou um papel significativo no cenário cultural e político da época. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/malhete-podcast/message

Helping to eradicate smallpox. Experiencing bewildering treatment in an Ottoman bathouse - a hamman. Having a failed relationship with Clotworthy Skeffington. The story of the life of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu is extraordinary. Listen to William Dalrymple and Anita Anand tell it. IRC link: https://www.rescue.org/uk  DEC link: https://donation.dec.org.uk/turkey-syria-earthquake-appeal LRB Empire offer: lrb.me/empire Twitter: @Empirepoduk Goalhangerpodcasts.com Producer: Callum Hill Exec Producer: Jack Davenport Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Description: An immersive reading of Town Eclogues: Saturday; The Small-Pox by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu with reflection on small pox, appearances and responding to illness.Website:https://anauscultation.wordpress.com/ Work:Town Eclogues: Saturday; The Small-Poxby Lady Mary Wortley Montagu' How am I chang'd ! alas ! how am I grown' A frightful spectre, to myself unknown !' Where's my Complexion ? where the radiant Bloom,' That promis'd happiness for Years to come ?' Then with what pleasure I this face survey'd !' To look once more, my visits oft delay'd !' Charm'd with the view, a fresher red would rise,' And a new life shot sparkling from my eyes ![…]' Ye, cruel Chymists, what with-held your aid !' Could no pomatums save a trembling maid ?' How false and trifling is that art you boast ;' No art can give me back my beauty lost.' In tears, surrounded by my friends I lay,' Mask'd o'er and trembled at the sight of day;' MIRMILLO came my fortune to deplore,' (A golden headed cane, well carv'd he bore)' Cordials, he cried, my spirits must restore :' Beauty is fled, and spirit is no more !' GALEN, the grave ; officious SQUIRT was there,' With fruitless grief and unavailing care :' MACHAON too, the great MACHAON, known' By his red cloak and his superior frown ;' And why, he cry'd, this grief and this despair ?' You shall again be well, again be fair ;' Believe my oath ; (with that an oath he swore)' False was his oath ; my beauty is no more !References:Town Eclogues: Saturday; The Small-Pox https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44766/town-eclogues-saturday-the-small-pox  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/lady-mary-wortley-montagu  https://www.bachelorandmaster.com/britishandamericanpoetry/town-eclogues-saturday-the-small-pox-summary-analysis.html#.Y7bqEuzML54 Small Pox: https://www.cdc.gov/smallpox/index.html  Ehrenpreis JE, Ehrenpreis ED. A Historical Perspective of Healthcare Disparity and Infectious Disease in the Native American Population. Am J Med Sci. 2022 Apr;363(4):288-294.Riedel S. Edward Jenner and the history of smallpox and vaccination. Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent). 2005 Jan;18(1):21-5. Gibbs D. When a cane was the necessary complement of a physician. J R Coll Physicians Lond. 1999 Jan-Feb;33(1):85-9. Filippou D, Tsoucalas G, Panagouli E, Thomaidis V, Fiska A. Machaon, Son of Asclepius, the Father of Surgery. Cureus. 2020 Feb 19;12(2):e7038. https://www.randomactsofflowers.org/images/documents/RAFNational-Study-HomeEcologyofFlowersStudy.pdf

As a society figure in Georgian England, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was more than a hostess, gossip and subject of scandal. A sharp wit, she wrote essays that were radical in their ideas, and way ahead of their time. She was also an early pioneer of inoculation, a technique she observed and experimented with on her own children  as a diplomat's wife in Turkey. Friend to the good and the great, including Alexander Pope and Voltaire, she was also susceptible to financial scam artists, much like many older women today.   In this episode  TV  drama producer turned biographer Jo Willett, author of The Pioneering Life of   Mary Wortley Montagu brings Lady Mary to life and explains why she deserves to be as well known as other leading figures of  scientific and feminist history.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We kick off 2022 with an episode devoted to a woman famed for her wit and beauty, and later for her status as a sort of early inoculation influencer. Her tale is told by DLS co-founder and devoted traveler, Florian Duijsens.   English aristocrat Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was raised to keep her opinions to herself, be it at home or in the King's court, but she travelled widely, published secretly, and convinced many to take important steps that saved lives. When her husband became ambassador to the Ottoman Empire in 1716, she accompanied him to Constantinople. Gaining access to female spaces in Turkey, she witnessed smallpox inoculations there and had her son immunized in the same way, using a small sample of the live virus that had killed her brother and caused severe scarring to her own face. The principle was adapted into what we now know as vaccination. Lady Mary later left her husband behind in England after falling for an Italian count, only returning after she was widowed. She wrote poetry, essays, and copious letters, many of which were published after her death, encouraging other ladies to travel as she had done.   DLS other co-founder Katy Derbyshire joins producer Susan Stone to introduce the featured Dead Lady.    Find our more about Lady Mary Wortley Montagu on our show notes page here: https://deadladiesshow.com/2022/01/19/podcast-49-lady-mary-wortley-montagu/   Our theme music is “Little Lily Swing” by Tri-Tachyon.   Thanks for listening! We'll be back with a new episode next month.   **** The Dead Ladies Show is a series of entertaining and inspiring talks about women who achieved amazing things against all odds, presented live in Berlin and beyond. This podcast is based on that series. Because women's history is everyone's history.   The Dead Ladies Show was founded by Florian Duijsens and Katy Derbyshire. The podcast is created, produced, edited, and presented by Susan Stone.   Don't forget, we have a Patreon! Thanks to all of our current supporters! Please consider supporting our transcripts project and our ongoing work: www.patreon.com/deadladiesshowpodcast   If you prefer to make a one-time donation, here's the link: paypal.me/dlspodcast

The worldwide eradication of smallpox was not Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's only claim to fame; she discarded the life she knew and set out to remake herself, acquiring a reputation for eccentricity, adventures worthy of a modern motion picture, and unwanted literary superstardom. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was brought up to believe that it was her face that was her fortune, and her place to be simply decorative. However, her uncommon intelligence, influence among the powerful, and her willingness to accept new ideas about medicine would save lives, help end smallpox, and transform the entire world. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

When Lady Mary Wortley Montagu deliberately infected her daughter with a tiny dose of smallpox, successfully inoculating her in 1721, her ideas were dismissed by the British medical establishment. But it was this visionary woman's pioneering experiment that paved the way for modern vaccines.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was left to her own devices as a child. She responded by teaching herself to read and write before cataloguing her entire life via a constant stream of letters to anyone and everyone in high society. We can't say she always made the best choices, but her constant desire for new experiences led her to save the lives of potentially hundreds of thousands of British people... Which isn't a bad legacy at all.Guest Host: Emma Heathcote See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

EL AÑO DE LA VACUNA Acabamos de despedir el 2020, que estuvo marcado por la propagación de la COVID-19, y al que siempre recordaremos como el Año de la pandemia. Entramos en el 2021, al que ya podríamos ir bautizando como el Año de la vacuna. Nos esperan ácidas discusiones sobre a quién deben aplicarse las primeras dosis, sobre los que no querrán esperar y de los que serán consumidos por el temor de no recibirla. Hasta el cansancio leeremos acerca del papel de los gobiernos y de la responsabilidad de los países ricos en esta materia; es por estos motivos que debemos ser cuidadosos en qué fuentes de información consumir. La vacuna hallará una humanidad dividida, se convertirá en otro eje de ruptura en etapas de politización extrema de los eventos cotidianos. Estamos en un momento en que el odio y el rechazo a lo diferente moviliza con mucha más energía que las propuestas y la creación. No ha transcurrido ni medio siglo desde que se exterminó a la viruela, enfermedad que no ocurre de forma natural desde finales de los 70, pero en este corto tiempo ha cambiado nuestra visión sobre la inmunización. Cuando se iniciaron los planes masivos de vacunación, a mediados del siglo pasado hubo amplias coincidencias porque las grandes potencias, Estados Unidos y la Unión Soviética, colaboraron y promovieron las inmunizaciones colectivas, que formaban parte de sus estrategias geopolíticas. En esta oportunidad es distinto, los grupos favorables y contrarios se han enfrentado con agresividad, incapaces de escucharse y esparciendo falsedades en las redes sociales, donde han aparecido teorías inconcebibles que, aun así, han tenido enorme aceptación. La vacuna aparece para celebrar 300 años de esfuerzos en el mundo occidental. En 1721, la escritora Lady Mary Wortley Montagu inoculó la viruela a su hija, en la primera «inmunización» realizada en Europa. A diferencia de lo que nos han hecho pensar, la inoculación profiláctica no fue inventada en Occidente. La escritora había conocido el tratamiento en el Imperio Otomano, donde la aplicó a su hijo. Al volver a Inglaterra, se convirtió en promotora de la variolización, lo que la hizo sufrir ataques por dos motivos principales: ser mujer e impulsar una práctica no científica, es decir, no europea. La campaña de Lady Mary es digna de recordar ahora que nos mostramos sordos a las opiniones ajenas. Casi un siglo más tarde, Edwar Jenner comprobó que la viruela de las vacas protegía a los humanos de allí en nombre de «vacuna» , y ya no hubo discusión. Siguiendo las ideas de Jenner, en 1803, el español Francisco Javier Balmis organizó la Expedición Filantrópica, y, con una veintena de huérfanos a los que fue contagiando para preservar el virus, salvó la vida de millones de latinoamericanos. La pandemia nos sumergió en una profunda crisis de desinformación, esperemos que la vacuna también nos cure de ese mal. Es un momento cumbre para aprender a buscar noticias que nos lleven a tomar decisiones inteligentes. Saber obtener los datos equilibrados nos ayudará controlar nuestras dudas y temores. Por lo regular, nos aferramos a los medios que dicen lo que nos gusta y rechazamos aquello que ofrece una perspectiva contraria a la nuestra. En estos tiempos, fértiles para el autoritarismo, se han producido ofensivas contra la prensa libre, muchas promovidas por los mismos gobiernos. Estas agresiones nos dejan más vulnerables ante historias sin fundamento, lo que es mucho más peligroso que la misma COVID-19. VACUNATE CONTRA LA DESINFORMACIÓN Y LA POLARIZACIÓN siendo diligentes y pacientes. #danielhabif​ #Inquebrantables --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/daniel-habif/support

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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was an extraordinary woman, both in her personality and in her contribution to the world, specifically in medicine. This episode looks at both aspects, trying to pick out the complex character behind her image, in particular her possibly ambivalent and certainly far from obvious sexuality. Then, however, it looks at how she became a leading benefactor to humanity, by introducing to England, and through England to Europe, the life-saving procedure of immunising against smallpox by inoculation with the disease itself. That makes this episode not entirely suitable for anti-vaxxers, especially as it ends with a quick look at how her campaign led to the launching of actual vaccination, as opposed to the variolation she promoted. The anti-vaxxers won't like hearing that the procedure has saved hundreds of millions of lives. Illustration: William Powell Frith, Alexander Pope declared his love to Lady Mary, who responded with laughter. The writer Pope is said to have made a declaration to Lady Mary who simply found it uproariously funny, offending him deeply and turning him into an open enemy. The painting dates from 1852, so it's a later retrospective and imaginary depiction, but more fun than the contemporary and more serious portraits, which is why I chose it. It's in the library at Otago, New Zealand, and the image is in the public domain. Music: Bach Partita #2c by J Bu licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives (aka Music Sharing) 3.0 International License

With the surge in people getting dogs during lockdown, Emily Dean, broadcaster and host of ‘Walking The Dog with Emily Dean’ joins Anita to discuss her shih-tzu called Raymond, the trend for ‘pandemic puppies’ and the unique relationship between women and their dogs. Newspaper reports from the weekend suggest that Prince Charles, Harry, William and Kate spent a couple of hours at Frogmore Cottage after the funeral of Prince Phillip on Saturday, presumably hoping to clear the air after what has been a turbulent time for the Royal family. Whatever your background - family rifts can be very painful, sometimes lasting years and often beyond anyone's memory of why they originally fell out. What should you do if you want to reconcile? How do you make that initial approach? Anita is joined by Dee Holmes, Family Counsellor with Relate and Mamta Saha, practising psychologist. More than fifteen thousand people have emailed their experiences of sexual harassment and assault in school as pupils or past pupils on the ‘Everyone‘s Invited’ website but what about assault by pupils towards teachers? We hear one female teacher’s experience of being sexually assaulted at school, and from Jennifer Moses the National Official for equality and training at the Teaching Union the NASUWT. 300 years ago this month, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu deliberately infected her three year old daughter with a dose of smallpox – in other words she inoculated her – and was the first to do so in the West. Her role in the race to halt the spread of the virus was largely unacknowledged at the time. She should be recognised for the pioneer that she was says Jo Willett who has written her biography ‘The Pioneering Life of Mary Wortley Montagu’.

In the 18th century, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was an aristocrat, courtier, brilliant beauty, intellectual, wife to the ambassador to the Ottoman Empire and a sufferer from smallpox. It was during her time in Constantinople that she witnessed a procedure that would alter the course of her life; inoculation. Having inoculated her children she brought the practice back to Britain where she inoculated the offspring of the high and mighty including the daughters of the royal family. Jo Willet, TV producer and author of The Pioneering Life of Mary Wortley Montagu, joins Dan to explore the fascinating life of the 18th Century ‘It Girl’ turned public health pioneer.Over the weekend there was a mix up with two of our episodes. If you want to go back and listen to the brilliant Diarmaid Ferriter discussing Irish independence then please click here. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In the 18th century, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was an aristocrat, courtier, brilliant beauty, intellectual, wife to the ambassador to the Ottoman Empire and a sufferer from smallpox. It was during her time in Constantinople that she witnessed a procedure that would alter the course of her life; inoculation. Having inoculated her children she brought the practice back to Britain where she inoculated the offspring of the high and mighty including the daughters of the royal family. Jo Willet, TV producer and author of The Pioneering Life of Mary Wortley Montagu, joins Dan to explore the fascinating life of the 18th Century ‘It Girl’ turned public health pioneer.Over the weekend there was a mix up with two of our episodes. If you want to go back and listen to the brilliant Diarmaid Ferriter discussing Irish independence then please click here. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week we talk about Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, the woman who first brought inoculations to the west, but of course was not credited for it!!!Got an amazing story about a chick in history of your own? Email your Chickstory to mychickstory@gmail.comFollow us on Instagram: @chickstory_podcastLinks:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Mary_Wortley_Montagu https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/time.com/5542895/mary-montagu-smallpox/%3famp=true https://amp.theguardian.com/books/2016/aug/18/letter-by-mary-wortley-montagu-pioneering-travel-writer-up-for-auctionExecutive Producers Yvie Jones and Annette StaglienoEdited by Annette StaglienoProduced by Sam Peterson See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Jo Willett tells the story of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, who pioneered smallpox inoculation almost a century before Edward Jenner Mary Wortley Montagu is one of the most important figures in the battle to combat smallpox, so why is this 18th-century aristocrat so little-known today? Jo Willett, author of The Pioneering Life of Mary Wortley Montagu, shares the story of a fiercely independent scientist, feminist and woman of letters who changed the course of medical history. (Ad) Jo Willett is the author of The Pioneering Life of Mary Wortley Montagu: Scientist and Feminist (Pen & Sword, 2021). Buy it now from Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pioneering-Life-Mary-Wortley-Montagu/dp/1526779382/?tag=bbchistory045-21&ascsubtag=historyextra-social-hexpod/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Hello! Welcome to our LGBT History Month special. In this podcast you will hear from: Steven Skelley, Barnsley Museums, talking about how people can contribute LGBT+ memories and items to Experience Barnsley. Ken Brookes, Maurice Dobson Museum & Heritage Centre, talking about Maurice Dobson and his partner Fred Halliday. Stephen Miller, Barnsley Libraries, author ‘Uncovered’ Barnsley project, talking about discovering untold stories of Barnsley’s LGBT+ past. Jenny Rudd, NT Wentworth Castle Gardens, talking about her research & forthcoming talk on Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, pioneer of smallpox vaccine. Kate Charlesworth - A Barnsley Born Author, cartoonist and Illustrator now living in Scotland, reflecting on her career and recent book: Sensible Footwear: A Girl's Guide

Mary Astell and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu had a lot more in common than having a record book full of firsts— the first English feminist, the founder of the first school with an all female board of governors, the first English female travel writer, the first woman published in the Spectator. They were also connected by a passion for politics, a commitment to justice, and a strong friendship. Throughout their more than fifteen-year friendship, the women certainly influenced each other, and even the ends of their lives mirrored each other. Find out all about them in this episode of Sistory Untold! For more information follow us on Twitter and Instagram @sistoryuntold, email us at sistoryuntold@gmail.com or find our episode sources on our website sistoryuntold.com

The ladies cover notes to future selves, mask positives and shot shots, while Jill has a period for Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.

Episode 1 of Are You a Good Bitch or a Bad Bitch? We look into two women of the early 18th century: a lady who promoted early vaccines and educating girls, and a lass who took what she could and gave nothing back.The story of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu & Anne BonnyMusic by Deanna DeBenedictisSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/GBBBPodcast)

Episode 23 of School Britannia Podcast, a fortnightly show serving you British History gems from the perspective of two Aussie upstarts. Why did people use gunpowder to fight the Great Fire of London? Who was Lady Mary Wortley Montagu? Where have we been all this time?? All this and more! Editing by Eleanor with much assistance from Claire www.clairegawne.com Music by Jamie Pettinger Artwork by Lucy Maddox www.lucymaddox.com SOURCES Great Fire of London: https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/The-Great-Fire-of-London/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Fire_of_London https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Fire_Brigade https://www.london-fire.gov.uk/museum/history-and-stories/early-fire-brigades/ https://londontopia.net/history/history-london-fire-brigade/ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/03/not-our-mission-private-fire-crews-protect-the-insured-not-the-public http://www.firefighterfoundation.org.uk/history/ Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Smallpox: BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/02/2007_14_fri.shtml BBC Radio 4 Science Stories: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/lady-mary-montagus-smallpox-experiment/id1112598040?i=1000426901064 US National Library of Medicine: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/smallpox/sp_variolation.html Who was Lady Mary Wortley Montagu? Eamonn Gearon for the National Trust: https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/features/who-was-lady-mary-wortley-montagu Boston University School of Public Health: http://sphweb.bumc.bu.edu/otlt/MPH-Modules/EP/EP713_Causality/EP713_Causality2.html World Health Organisation: https://www.who.int/biologicals/vaccines/smallpox/en/ The Wellcome Foundation http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/2016/05/lady-montagu-and-the-introduction-of-inoculation/ Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe, Mary Lindemann, University of Miami - August 2010 http://services.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/history/european-history-after-1450/medicine-and-society-early-modern-europe-2nd-edition?format=PB This Podcast Will Kill You, Episode 3: Gnarlypox https://thispodcastwillkillyou.com/2018/02/10/episode-3/

Smallpox… the word sounds harmless enough, but this “speckled monster” was the scourge of Western Europe throughout the 1700s. Why did it disappear? The credit belongs to a fiery 18th-century feminist. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu rebelled against everything—her father, societal norms, and smallpox. After catching—and recovering from—the disease, she vowed to protect her children from living the same horror. But she had to face intercontinental travel, a pus-based economy, and a stubborn kingdom to do it. If she succeeded, Western Europe could be rid of smallpox forever. Written and reported by Brenna Biggs. References: Hager, T. How One Daring Woman Introduced the Idea of Smallpox Inoculation to England. Time (2019). Montagu, L. M. W. Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M--y W---y M---e: Written During Her Travels in Europe, Asia and Africa, to Persons of Distinction, Men of Letters, &c. in Different Parts of Europe. Which Contain, Among Other Curious Relations, Accounts of the Policy and Manners of The Turks.... Complete in One Volume. M. Cooper (1779). Smallpox: A Great and Terrible Scourge. National Institutes of Health: U.S. Library of Medicine (2013). Riedel, S. Edward Jenner and the history of smallpox and vaccination. Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings (2005).

Road trip back to the 18th Century with our friend Chloe Donnelley! We're discussing writers such as Maria Susanna Cooper, Fukuda Chiyo-ni and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu! Podcoin

5:20 How to begin a story with a moment of unexpected change 5:58 Evolutionary psychology and storytelling 11:46 Status 16:38 Anti-heroes 24:31 Three routes into story: milieu, what if and argument 28:05 The problem with recipes for storytelling 30:01 The broken protagonist 38:37 Loss of control 50:20 What psychology teaches us about stories and vice versa 53:23 Plot-driven versus character-driven novels 57:08 The novel and the advent of human rights 1:00:18 The idea of the ‘trashy’ novel 1:01:48 TV series & soap operas 1:08:04 The story event 1:14:56 Fantasy 1:16:32 Avoiding cliché & other pitfalls Will Storr’s book, The Science of Storytelling is available in the UK here (and is forthcoming in the US): https://www.amazon.co.uk/Science-Storytelling-Will-Storr/dp/0008276943. You can find Will’s The Heretics: Adventures with the Enemies of Science (2014) here: https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/will-storr/the-heretics/9780330535861 Complete details of all Will’s work can be found here: http://willstorr.com/ You can follow Will on Twitter @wstorr Literary works mentioned: Shakespeare, King Lear and Julius Caesar; T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1926); Jane Austen, Emma (1815); J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (1997); Patrick Süskind, Perfume (1985); Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824); Nabokov, Lolita (1955); Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969); Henry Fielding, Tom Jones (1749); Samuel Richardson, Pamela (1740) and Clarissa (1748); Ben Jonson, The Alchemist (ca. 1610); J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings (1954–55). TV, radio, film: Game of Thrones; Lost; Twin Peaks; Breaking Bad; The Sopranos; The Archers; Babylon 5; Star Wars; Star Trek Discovery; Six Feet Under. Other references: Amy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY9HuVYWn_Y; Tony Tanner, Jane Austen (1986). The critic of Tanner’s I refer to around the 39 minute mark was John Mullan; Roy Baumeister http://www.roybaumeister.com/; James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791); Lynn Hunt, Inventing Human Rights (2007); Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, “The Reasons that Induced Dr. S. to Write a Poem Call’d the Lady’s Dressing Room” (1734). In the podcast, I misattribute lines from this to “Verses Address’d to the Imitator of Horace” (1733).

Oprah Winfrey is an American media executive, actress, talk show host, television producer and philanthropist. She is best known for her talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show, which was the highest-rated television program of its kind in history and was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2011 in Chicago. In 2007, USA Today ranked Winfrey as the most influential woman and most influential black person of the previous quarter-century. Ladies Home Journal also ranked Winfrey number one in their list of the most powerful women in America and Senator Barack Obama has said she "may be the most influential woman in the country". In 1998, Winfrey became the first woman and first African American to top Entertainment Weekly's list of the 101 most powerful people in the entertainment industry. Forbes named her the world's most powerful celebrity in 2005, 2007,2008, 2010, and 2013. As chairman of Harpo Inc., she was named the most powerful woman in entertainment by The Hollywood Reporter in 2008. She has been listed as one of the most powerful 100 women in the world by Forbes, ranking fourteenth in 2014. In 2010, Life magazine named Winfrey one of the 100 people who changed the world, alongside such luminaries as , Elvis Presley, and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Winfrey was the only living woman to make the list. By confessing intimate details about her weight problems, tumultuous love life, and sexual abuse, and crying alongside her guests, Time magazine credits Winfrey with creating a new form of media communication known as "rapport talk" as distinguished from the "report talk" of Phil Donahue: "Winfrey saw television's power to blend public and private; while it links strangers and conveys information over public airwaves, Video:Evan Carmicheal --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/handradio/support

Naomi Alderman's Science Story reveals how Lady Mary Wortley Montagu experimented on her own child in a quest to prove that smallpox inoculation works. Born in 1689 in a position of some power and influence, Lady Mary travelled to Constantinople as the wife of the ambassador to Turkey and witnessed 'variolation parties'. Here 'a nut shell' of virus on a needle is put in an opened vein to infer immunity. Having lost her own brother to smallpox and survived with terrible scaring herself, Lady Mary knew first hand the dangers of the deadly disease. She became the first person to bring smallpox inoculation to the West. Medical historian Lindsey Fiztharris tells the remarkable story of how condemned prisoners are given the opportunity to escape execution under the orders of King George I if they are given the virus and survive. Tim Spector, Professor of Genetic Epidemiology at Kings College, London, and Naomi discuss some of today's counter intuitive treatments, such as faecal transplants.

This is Part 2 of 2 episodes on one of the greatest literary battles in history. This week, hear all about the showdown between Alexander Pope, the greatest poet of his age, and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, a gifted poet and adventurer. Pope, a man with a genius for friendship, never turned his back on a close friend - except for Lady Mary. The reasons that she ended up being served this singular fate are shrouded in mystery (something that hasn't stopped people from speculating, at times quite wildly), but they spawned a feud that led Pope to accuse Lady Mary of being a carrier of venereal disease and an all-around loose woman, in very public poems, and that led Lady Mary to respond with poems that accused the hunchbacked Pope of having been cursed by a just God with an appearance that matched his personality. Through this feud, each author fell victim to the spirit of an age so conflicted that bickering became second nature. This episode also covers these conflicts, between persecuted English Catholic and fearful English Protestant, and between the two political parties in England, one of which (Lady Mary's) consolidated power during the first decades of the eighteenth century, and one of which (Pope's) lost it almost entirely. Pope and Lady Mary were both caught up in these problems, in ways that caused each a lot of heartbreak and sorrow.

Peter White draws on the latest research to reveal the lives of physically disabled people in the 18th and 19th centuries. Today, he explores ideas of beauty and deformity which had a real impact on the lives of people with disabilities. In the 18th century, you could be transformed from beautiful to 'deformed' overnight. We hear the first-hand account of one woman who suffered this transformation - the writer Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, a society beauty who caught smallpox when she was 26: 'How am I changed! Where's my complexion, where the bloom that promised happiness for years to come?' Mourning loss of beauty was not just natural human vanity, because beauty was thought of as a moral quality, not just skin-deep - and ugliness was deeply shameful. The belief was that outward deformity revealed inner wickedness. Peter explores how this idea changed under the impact of a greater scientific understanding of the world. But surprisingly, science did not encourage more tolerance - in fact, it led to a much narrower definition of what was "normal". He also discovers that disability was thought to be contagious in the 18th century, and that all women were believed to be deformed because the ideal body was male. With historians Naomi Baker and Judith Hawley, and historical sources including manuals for parents to correct the appearance of their children as well as 18th century doctors' advertisements. Voices from the past are brought vividly to life, with actors Emily Bevan, Ewan Bailey and Gerard McDermott. Producer: Elizabeth Burke Academic adviser: David Turner of Swansea University A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the search for immunisation. In 1717, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, the wife of the British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, wrote a letter to her friend describing how she had witnessed the practice of smallpox inoculation in Constantinople. This involved the transfer of material from a smallpox postule into multiple cuts made in a vein. Lady Montagu had lost her brother to smallpox and was amazed that the Middle Eastern practice of inoculation rendered the fatal disease harmless. In Britain, the practice was unknown. Inoculation was an early attempt at creating immunity to disease, but was later dismissed when Edward Jenner pioneered immunisation through vaccination in 1796. Vaccination was hailed a huge success. Napoleon described it as the greatest gift to mankind, but when the British government introduced the compulsory Vaccination Act in 1853, targeted at the poor and the working class, it sparked a mass opposition movement.How did a Gloucestershire country surgeon become known as the father of vaccination? Why did the British government introduce compulsory smallpox vaccination in 1853? What were the consequences of those who opposed it? And how was the disease finally eradicated? With Nadja Durbach, Associate Professor of History at the University of Utah, Chris Dye, Co-ordinator of the World Health Organisation's work on tuberculosis epidemiology, Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Lecturer in the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the search for immunisation. In 1717, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, the wife of the British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, wrote a letter to her friend describing how she had witnessed the practice of smallpox inoculation in Constantinople. This involved the transfer of material from a smallpox postule into multiple cuts made in a vein. Lady Montagu had lost her brother to smallpox and was amazed that the Middle Eastern practice of inoculation rendered the fatal disease harmless. In Britain, the practice was unknown. Inoculation was an early attempt at creating immunity to disease, but was later dismissed when Edward Jenner pioneered immunisation through vaccination in 1796. Vaccination was hailed a huge success. Napoleon described it as the greatest gift to mankind, but when the British government introduced the compulsory Vaccination Act in 1853, targeted at the poor and the working class, it sparked a mass opposition movement.How did a Gloucestershire country surgeon become known as the father of vaccination? Why did the British government introduce compulsory smallpox vaccination in 1853? What were the consequences of those who opposed it? And how was the disease finally eradicated? With Nadja Durbach, Associate Professor of History at the University of Utah, Chris Dye, Co-ordinator of the World Health Organisation's work on tuberculosis epidemiology, Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Lecturer in the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL