Women travellers in the Near East /
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Language: English
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Oxford :
Oxbow Books,
c2005.
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Astene Publications.
AstenePub.
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Call Number: DS44.98 .W65 2005
Table of Contents:
- •1. •Introduction / •Sarah Searight •2. •Travelling to post : Lady Liston, an ambassadress in Constantinople / •Deborah Manley •3. •Two feisty ladies in the Levant : Princess Caroline and Lady Craven / •Charles Plouviez •4. •Travels in the Slavonic provinces of Turkey-in-Europe : Miss Muir Mackenzie and Miss Irby / •Dorothy Anderson •5. •Three travellers in nineteenth century Egypt : Sarah Belzoni, Amelia Edwards and Margaret Benson / •Megan Price •6. •A woman's perception of nineteenth century Egypt : Luice Duff Gordon / •Sarah Searight •7. •Governess to the Grand Pasha of Egypt : Emmeline Lott / •Alix Wilkinson •8. •The unknown pilgrimage to Sinai : Isabella Bird / •Deborah Manley •9. •'Women's work for women' : American Presbyterian missionary women in Egypt, 1854-1914 / •Jeanne-Marie Warzeski •10. •Perceptions of women in the eastern desert of Egypt / •Janet Starkey •11. •Archaeologists' wives as travel writers / •Elizabeth French.