Unit 2: How Trade and Travel Changed the World Lesson B: Life and Times in the Ottoman Empire Student Resource: Historical Investigation – Women of the Ottoman Empire Focus Question: What is the role...

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Extracted text: Unit 2: How Trade and Travel Changed the World Lesson B: Life and Times in the Ottoman Empire Student Resource: Historical Investigation – Women of the Ottoman Empire Focus Question: What is the role of Muslim women in Islamic society? Document 6: European Observations on Ottoman Women The following are excerpts from the letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762). These letters are written to various friends and family members while she was living abroad in Constantinople with her husband, Lord Edward Wortley Montagu, the British Ambassador to the Ottoman court from 1717 to 1719. They show a European perspective on the lives of Ottoman women. (Source: Montagu, Mary Wortley. The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Montagu. Volume 1. Edited by her great-grandson Lord Wharncliffe. London: George Bell and Sons, 1887.) .. Turkish ladies ... are perhaps freer than any ladies in the universe, and are the only women in the world that lead a life of uninterrupted pleasure exempt from cares; their whole time being spent in visiting, bathing, or the agreeable amusement of spending money, and inventing new fashions. A husband would be thought mad that exacted any degree of economy from his wife, whose expenses are no way limited but by her own fancy. 'Tis his business to get money and hers to spend it: and this noble prerogative extends itself to the very meanest of the sex. Here is a fellow that carries embroidered handkerchiefs upon his back to sell, as miserable a figure as you may suppose such a mean dealer, yet I'll assure you his wife scorns to wear anything less than cloth of gold; has her ermine furs, and a very handsome set of jewels for her head. They go abroad when and where they please. 'Tis true they have no public places but the bagnios, and there can only be seen by their own sex; however, that is a diversion they take great pleasure in. Source: http://chnm.gmu.edu/wwh/d/91/wwh.html 1. Identify the source and type of document.