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Walchester, K 
ORCID: 0000-0003-4484-6860
(2026)
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Turkish Embassy Letters: Gardens and Gardeners in Transcultural Mediation.
Studia Philologica, 43 (3.1).
pp. 47-56.
ISSN 2534-918X
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Abstract
This article uses as its basis an article by Ludmilla Kostova, “Acts of Intercultural and Interlingual Mediation in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s Turkish Embassy Letters” (VTU, 2020), in which Kostova addresses the representation of translation and the role of the interpreter in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s 1763 publication, The Turkish Embassy Letters. Gardens and natural landscapes were prevalent in Wortley Montagu’s writing throughout her life, and this article proposes that gardens may also be regarded as a mode of communication, one in which symbolism and cultural and religious reference feature frequently. Drawing on Kostova’s presentation of Wortley Montagu as a “mediator” of Turkish culture, which uses Debrix and Weber’s conceptualisation of the act of intercultural translation, I suggest that Wortley Montagu’s depiction of various garden spaces in Adrianople (now Edirne), both illuminates and obscures aspects of the culture and society she attempts to depict.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | 47 Language, Communication and Culture; 3602 Creative and Professional Writing; 4705 Literary Studies; 36 Creative Arts and Writing |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) |
| Divisions: | Humanities and Social Science |
| Publisher: | St. Cyril and St. Methodius" University of Veliko Tarnovo |
| Date of acceptance: | 30 March 2026 |
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 28 August 2026 |
| Date Deposited: | 28 Aug 2026 11:20 |
| Last Modified: | 28 Aug 2026 11:20 |
| DOI or ID number: | 10.54664/xwyk3532 |
| URI: | https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/29218 |
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