Dreaming of East: Western Women and the Exotic Allure of the Orient by Barbara Hodgson

Dreaming of East: Western Women and the Exotic Allure of the Orient

Barbara Hodgson

184 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction history travel informative reflective medium-paced
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When Lady Mary Wortley Montagu visited the baths in Turkey in 1717 she was so tightly corseted that Turkish women were convinced her husband had locked her into some devious machine. Montagu's account of her journey helped bring the region into th...

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