For centuries LMWM
has been interpreted and re-interpreted, judged less often as writer than as an exemplar of the unacceptable female. Her fame and/or notoriety flourished during her lifetime, and posthumous publications kept it alive...
Occupation
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
An anonymous author, apparently the country apothecary Cudworth Bruch
, celebrated the memory of LMWM
in The Triumph of Inoculation; a Dream.
His name appears in manuscript on the title-page of the Bodleian Library
