Dreaming of East, Western Women And the Exotic Allure of the Orient

by Barbara Hodgson

A richly illustrated portrait of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (Turkish Embassy letters) and other traveling women. Hodgson captures the vogue for everything Oriental in the Victorian era with a selection of drawings and photographs.

GERTRUDE BELL, writing of her 1905 trek from Jerusalem to Damascus through the seldom-visited Hauran, a plateau region south of Damascus, captures the excitement she felt as she set off.h
Her enchantment with the Eastsurvived her subsequent travels and her nine-yer residence in Bagdad.

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