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Letters from Egypt / Lucie Duff Gordon.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Cultures in Dialogue: Second SeriesPublisher: Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, [2010]Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (435 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781593339098
  • 9781463219130
Subject(s): Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CULTURES IN DIALOGUE -- INTRODUCTION -- Contents -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- MEMOIR -- LETTERS FROM EGYPT. Part 1 -- LETTERS FROM EGYPT. Part 2
Summary: Diagnosed with tuberculosis, Lady Lucie Duff Gordon left her family in London in 1862 to take up permanent residence in Upper Egypt or the Saeed. There she wrote Letters from Egypt (1865), which offers an intimate portrayal of the social life of the Saeed, connecting happenings there with international politics and issues around race, class, nation, and gender.

Frontmatter -- CULTURES IN DIALOGUE -- INTRODUCTION -- Contents -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- MEMOIR -- LETTERS FROM EGYPT. Part 1 -- LETTERS FROM EGYPT. Part 2

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Diagnosed with tuberculosis, Lady Lucie Duff Gordon left her family in London in 1862 to take up permanent residence in Upper Egypt or the Saeed. There she wrote Letters from Egypt (1865), which offers an intimate portrayal of the social life of the Saeed, connecting happenings there with international politics and issues around race, class, nation, and gender.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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