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An Englishwoman recounts eight years living among women in Persia and Turkish Arabia, combining travel memoir, social observation, and missionary medical experiences. She describes daily life in anderoons and hareems, domestic customs, dress, weddings, funerals, child-rearing, local industries, climate, and landscape, and sketches religious practices including Bábism and Zoroastrian rites. Interwoven are accounts of hospital work, surgeries, and public-health challenges, stories of journeys through deserts and cities such as Kerman and Mosul, and reflections on irrigation, river navigation, and changing political conditions. The narrative blends intimate portraits, practical detail about crafts and medicine, and commentary on social constraints and reform.
“So, after the sore torments of the route,
Toothache and headache, and the ache of mind,
And huddled sleep and smarting wakefulness,
And night and day, and hunger sick at food,
And twenty-fold relays, and packages
To be unlocked, and passports to be found,
And heavy well-kept landscape—we are glad
Because we entered (Persia) in the Sun.”
D. G. Rossetti.