Lady Mary Montagu, Brilliant Autodidact Aristocrat
She championed knowledge of smallpox inoculation learned abroad, using her influence to challenge medical resistance and bring a different approach to preventing disease into public view.
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Sarah is an autodidact, polyglot, and voracious reader who hails from the great state of Maryland. She hopes one day to enter the world of academia herself, but in the interim contents herself with dreaming of topics for theses she'll never write.
She championed knowledge of smallpox inoculation learned abroad, using her influence to challenge medical resistance and bring a different approach to preventing disease into public view.