Rand Paul & The Speckled Monster
Senator Rand Paul gives a shout-out to The Speckled Monster during the Republican Presidential Debate, September 16, 2015
The Turkish Bath by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
“Skin shiningly white”: Ingres paints Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s word picture in “The Turkish Bath,” 1862 (The Louvre)…
Lady Mary in Pictures
Before her bout with smallpox Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was a famously beautiful woman. She was painted many times, before and after…
Jennifer on The Diane Rehm Show (NPR)
Jennifer talks about smallpox and “The Speckled Monster” with Diane Rehm on NPR’s “The Diane Rehm Show” (June 20, 2003)…
Variolation vs. Vaccination
Variolation vs. Vaccination (The Wellcome Library, London)…