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The Englishwoman in Egypt / Letters from Cairo, Written During a Residence There in 1842, 3, & 4

Chapter 1: THE ENGLISHWOMAN IN EGYPT.
By Sophia Lane Poole
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A series of letters by an Englishwoman records travel between Alexandria and Cairo and offers a blend of travelogue, ethnography, and natural description. The writer details harbours, streets, markets, domestic architecture, and antiquities, and provides sustained observations on the Nile, climate, winds, irrigation, and a month-by-month agricultural calendar. Accounts of festivals, the month of fasting, processions, and pilgrimage ceremonies appear alongside notes on costume, popular beliefs, domestic servants, sanitation, and hazards faced by foreigners. Her gendered vantage point grants rare access to private female life and household customs, enriching the portrait of urban and rural Egyptian society.

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Title: The Englishwoman in Egypt

Author: Sophia Lane Poole

Release date: May 17, 2019 [eBook #59526]

Language: English

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THE
ENGLISHWOMAN IN EGYPT.

THE HOME & TRAVELLER’S LIBRARY SEMI-MONTHLY.
II.
PHILADELPHIA:
G. B. ZEIBER & CO.
1845.
No. I.
OF THE
HOME AND TRAVELLER’S LIBRARY
CONTAINED
TEXAS
AND
THE GULF OF MEXICO;
OR
YACHTING IN THE NEW WORLD.
BY MRS. HOUSTOUN.
With Illustrations.
No. II.
THE
ENGLISHWOMAN IN EGYPT.
BY MRS. POOLE.
To be followed, at intervals of about two weeks, by
No. III.
NIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE.
AND
No. IV.
SKETCHES
OF
CREDULITY, IMPOSTURE AND DECEPTION.
ETC. ETC. ETC.
II.
THE
ENGLISHWOMAN IN EGYPT;
LETTERS FROM CAIRO,
WRITTEN DURING A RESIDENCE THERE IN 1842, 3, & 4.
WITH
E. W. LANE, Esq.,
AUTHOR OF “THE MODERN EGYPTIANS.”
BY HIS SISTER.
PHILADELPHIA:
G. B. ZIEBER & CO.
1845.
C. Sherman, Printer, Philadelphia.