The Pioneering Life of Mary Wortley Montagu: Scientist and Feminist by Jo Willett

The Pioneering Life of Mary Wortley Montagu: Scientist and Feminist

Jo Willett

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nonfiction biography challenging informative medium-paced
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300 years ago, in April 1721, a smallpox epidemic was raging in England. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu knew that she could save her 3-year-old daughter using the process of inoculation. She had witnessed this at first hand in Turkey, while she was liv...

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