![]() ![]() However, even though she does not write about cannibals and other horrid creatures’ that eighteenth century readers of travel narratives may expect to read about, Montagu does not shy away from what contemporary readers will find as harsh comments about African Muslim women. Montagu’s The Turkey Embassy Letters does stray away from previous travel narratives that depict the East in a very negative context. The footnote suggests that Montagu is “keeping with the shift towards narratives that are more credible and ‘objective’” (86). This letter addressed to Montagu’s sister Lady Mar, discusses how Montagu will not entertain the “ridiculous imagination” of one of her associates. I verily believe she expects I should tell her of the Anthropophagi, men whose heads grow below their shoulders” (86). Lady Mary Wortley Montagu writes in Letter 21 dated January 16, 1717, “She is angry that I won’t lie like other travelers. ![]()
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