POOLE, Sophia

The Englishwoman in Egypt. Letters from Cairo written during a Residence there in 1942-1846. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Azza Kararah

Cairo, American University in Cairo Press, 2003.

Octavo, xx, 257 pages with a diagram, a map and a frontispiece portrait.

Pictorial papered boards; an excellent copy with the very slightly creased dustwrapper.

Poole lived in Cairo from 1842 until 1849 with her brother, the well-known Orientalist Edward Lane, and her two children. During her residence, Poole learned Arabic and adopted Egyptian clothing that enabled her to not only to observe day-to-day life in the streets and markets but to enter hammams and harems and interact on an intimate level with Egyptian women of different classes' (dustwrapper).

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