Mary Wortley Montagu

The Turkish Embasy Letters (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In 1716, Mary Wortley Montagu travelled across Europe to take up residence in Istanbul as the wife of the British ambassador. For two years she lovingly observed the Ottoman society around her with an astonishing lack of prejudice. Her wide-ranging letters - about the life of Turkish women behind the veil, Arabic poetry, contemporary medical practices such as inoculation - remain as fresh as the day they were penned. A self-educated intellectual, a free spirit, a radical and a feminist as well as an aristocrat, she was one of the first modern travel writers, studying and recording the culture around her on its own terms and through its own language.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Eland Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781780602035
• Artikelnr.: 61671289

Autorenporträt

Lucie, Lady Duff-Gordon (1821 - 1869) was an English author and translator who wrote as Lucie Gordon. She is best known for her Letters from Egypt, 1863-1865 (1865) and Last Letters from Egypt (1875). Having moved in prominent literary circles in London, she contracted tuberculosis and migrated in 1861 to South Africa for health reasons. She travelled on to Egypt in 1862 where she settled in Luxor, learnt Arabic, and wrote many letters about Egyptian culture, religion, and customs. Her letters are notable for humour, outrage at the ruling Ottomans, and many personal stories from the people around her.