The Englishwoman in Egypt: letters from Cairo / written during a residence there in 1842, 3, & 4, with E. W. Lane, Esq., author of 'The Modern Egyptian', by his sister.
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Main Collection post-1900
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Publication Year
1844
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(ABS) Interesting and important account of life in Egypt for women in the 1840s. The author,sister of the noted orientalist Edward William Lane, travelled to Egypt at his suggestion so that she 'might enjoy of obtaining an insight into the mode of life of the higher classes of the ladies in this country, and of seeing many things highly interesting in themselves, and rendered more so by their being accessible only to a lady...'. This was the first book in English to describe from direct observation the life of Egyptian women and caused a sensation on its publication.||(CON) Appendix A: Magic, pp. 185 - 195 (vol. II); appendix B: Female ornaments, pp. 196 - 240.||(TIT) Vol. II, half-title: Knights weekly volume: the English woman in Egypt. Vol. II; title on the spine of both volumes: Englishwoamn in Egypt.||(BIN) Quarter binding with marbled paper boards.||(OWN) On loan from SL.
Biblio Notes
2 volumes, [tp]+232 p., [tp]+240 p. : Illustrated [woodcut frontipiece to volume I, total of 19 b/w woodcut plates, map of Cairo, 3 plans of antiquities & 15 vignette illustrations] ; 15 cm.
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1