Alison Winch
has recently put forward a lesbian reading of the Turkish baths letter which supposes that Montagu was flirting with the Lady — to whom it is (in the edited version though not necessarily...
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Winch, Alison. “In Plain English, Stark Naked: Orlando, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Reclaiming Sapphic Connections”. Critical Survey, Vol.
19
, No. 1, 2007, pp. 51-61.
Winch, Alison. “Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Byronic Hero”. Pride and Prejudices: Women’s Writing of the Long Eighteenth Century.