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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: Travels of Lady Hester Stanhope 3 Volume Paperback Set, Volume 2
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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 2 begins in Damascus, and includes Lady Hester's
dangerous trip to Palmyra, where she had been advised it would be
impossible for a woman to go. It also includes accounts of plague
in Syria, and of Bedouin life.
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