It takes the average reader 9 hours and 19 minutes to read The Pioneering Life of Mary Wortley Montagu by Jo Willett
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The first biography to look at the early feminist and radical Mary Wortley Montagu, who successfully introduced Britain to the inoculation against the smallpox virus. 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 living there as the wife of the British ambassador. She also knew that by inoculating - making her daughter the first person protected in the West - she would face opposition from doctors,...
The Pioneering Life of Mary Wortley Montagu by Jo Willett is 553 pages long, and a total of 139,909 words.
This makes it 187% the length of the average book. It also has 171% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 12 hours and 44 minutes to read The Pioneering Life of Mary Wortley Montagu aloud.
The Pioneering Life of Mary Wortley Montagu is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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