Lady Mary Wortley Montagu traveled to the Ottoman Empire accompanying her husband, the English ambassador, and lived there between January 1717 and July 1718. She maintained a copious correspondence with her family and friends during her stay in Istanbul as well as during her journey, letters she later compiled and edited, and which were published under the title Embassy to Constantinople a year after her death. These letters constitute a truly important milestone for the travel literature of Europeans in the East because in them she left aside the stereotypes used until then, and tried to convey an objective and real image of everything she saw. Furthermore, they are interesting because they are written from a female point of view, very often addressed at women, and especially deal with topics related to the lives of women. The letters are also a very interesting example of mutual fascination for "the Other" because in them we can see not only the English lady comparing what she saw in her own experiences, but also the Ottoman ladies who would be equally interested in the world of lady Montagu.