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Travels of Lady Hester Stanhope - Forming the Completion of her Memoirs (Paperback)
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Travels of Lady Hester Stanhope - Forming the Completion of her Memoirs (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia Minor, Volume 1
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The adventurous and unconventional Lady Hester Stanhope (1776-1839)
set off to travel to the East in the early nineteenth century. She
had been hostess to her uncle, British Prime Minister William Pitt
the Younger, and after his death she received a government pension
and decided to leave England. Her personal physician Charles Meryon
(1783-1877) wrote this three-volume memoir of their travels, first
published in 1846. She had a reputation as an eccentric, but
thought of herself as the 'Queen of the desert' and indeed achieved
considerable influence in the places she travelled to. Eventually
she settled in the Lebanon, where she lived out the remainder of
her life. Volume 1 describes travels in Greece, Egypt, Palestine
and Syria, and an account of being shipwrecked near Rhodes. It
concludes with the party's arrival in Damascus, where Lady Hester
dressed in men's clothing and refused to wear a veil.
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