Dergiler / Çağdaş Türkiye Tarihi Araştırmaları Dergisi / 2017 / Cilt: 17 - Sayı: 35
LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU’DAN VE ONA MEKTUPLAR
- Sayfa
- 23–37
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Özet
Mary Wortley Montagu’nun seyahat mektupları, Lady Mar, Alexander Pope ve
Abstract
Mary Wortley Montagu’s travel letters were written to some individuals such asLady Mar, Alexander Pope, and Abbé Conti. Katharine Branning’s travel letters, on the otherhand, have been written to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu but at the same time, the writer isaddressing these letters to her family, friends, readers and also Turkish people. Branning, whohas spent some thirty years in Turkey, is now explaining what has changed in the countryso far and sharing her personal experiences. Thus, this article examines two memoirs of twowomen travel writers. The idea that these women travelogs had in mind was to be the voiceof Turkish people; therefore, they both wrote about Turkey, its people and their way of life.So, this study will determine how Turkish women and Turkish way of life have been depictedby two western women, British and American. Moreover, there will also be some focus on theimage of Turkish Women. The main intention is to discover whether there have been greatchanges in the Turkish way of life and the living conditions after Montagu’s memoir, TheTurkish Embassy Letters.