Table of Contents
Characters vii
Introduction Changing the Course of Science xvii
Chapter 1 Childhood 1
Chapter 2 Courtship 11
Chapter 3 Early Married Life 21
Chapter 4 Smallpox 31
Chapter 5 Traversing Europe 41
Chapter 6 Turkey 52
Chapter 7 Campaigning against Smallpox 63
Chapter 8 Friendship and More-Than-Friends 74
Chapter 9 The South Sea Bubble Crisis 86
Chapter 10 Feminist Writing 97
Chapter 11 Sister Mar 104
Chapter 12 The Break with Pope 116
Chapter 13 Motherhood and Marriage 128
Chapter 14 Francesco Algarotti 139
Chapter 15 A New Life Abroad 151
Chapter 16 Finishing Things with Algarotti 162
Chapter 17 Wandering Through Europe 172
Chapter 18 Count Palazzi 183
Chapter 19 Growing Old Abroad 195
Chapter 20 London Again 203
Appendix Following in Mary Wortley Montagu's Footsteps 216
Bibliography 218
Acknowledgements 230
Notes 231
Index 245