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Lady Anne Blunt in the Middle East - Travel, Politics and the Idea of Empire (Paperback)
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Lady Anne Blunt in the Middle East - Travel, Politics and the Idea of Empire (Paperback)
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Lady Anne Blunt was a woman ahead of her time. After marrying the
poet Wilfrid Scawen Blunt in 1869, the pair travelled extensively
in the Middle East, developing an especial fondness for the region
and its people. In this book, Lisa Lacy explores the life, travels
and political ideas of Lady Anne. With a broad knowledge of the
Arab world, she challenged prevailing assumptions and, as a result
of her aristocratic heritage, exerted strong influence in British
political circles. Her extensive journeys in the Mediterranean
region, North Africa, Egypt, Arabia, Syria, Iraq and Persia formed
the basis of her knowledge about the Middle East. She pursued an
intimate knowledge of Bedouin life in Arabia, the town culture of
Syria and Mesopotamia and the politics of nationalism in Egypt. Her
husband, Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, gained a reputation as an
anti-imperialist political activist. Lacy shows that Lady Anne was
her husband's partner in marriage, politics and travel and exerted
strong influence not only on his ideas, but on the ideas of the
British political elite of the era.
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