Women Travellers In The Near East

Contents: Introduction (Sarah Searight); Travelling to post: Lady Liston, an ambassadress in Constantinople (Deborah Manley); Two feisty ladies in the Levant: Princess Caroline and Lady Craven (Charles Plouviez); Travels in the Slavonic provinces of Turkey-in-Europe: Miss Muir Mackenzie and Miss Irby (Dorothy Anderson); Three travellers in nineteenth-century Egypt: Sarah Belzoni, Amelia Edwards and Margaret Benson (Megan Price); Lucie Duff Gordon: a woman's perception of Egypt (Sarah Searight); Governess to the Grand Pasha of Egypt: Emmeline Lott (Alix Wilkinson); The unknown pilgrimage to Sinai (Deborah Manley); Archaeologists' wives as travel writers (Elizabeth French); Women's perceptions of, and perceptions of women in, Egypt's Eastern desert (Janet Starkey). (Oxbow Books in Association with ASTENE, forthcoming 2005)Searight, Sarah is the author of 'Women Travellers In The Near East ', published 2005 under ISBN 9781842171615 and ISBN 1842171615.