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Lucie Duff Gordon Letters From Egypt

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Lucie, Lady Duff-Gordon (1821–1869) was an English writer. She is best known for her Letters from Egypt and Letters from the Cape. She suffered from tuberculosis and in 1851 went to South Africa for the 'climate' which she hoped would help her health, living near the Cape of Good Hope for several years before travelling to Egypt in 1862. In Egypt, she settled in Luxor where she learned Arabic and wrote many letters to her husband and her mother about her observation of Egyptian culture, religion and customs. Many critics regard her as being 'progressive' and tolerant, although she also held problematic views of various racial groups. Her letters home are celebrated for their humor, her outrage at the ruling Ottomans, and many personal stories gleaned from the people around her. In many ways they are also typical of orientalist traveller tales of this time. Most of her letters are to her husband, Alexander Duff-Gordon and her mother, Mrs. Sarah Austin. She married Duff-Gordon in Kensington in 1840[1] and had three children. Their daughter, Janet Ann Ross (née Duff Gordon), was born in 1842 and died in 1927. [more]

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Lucie Duff Gordon Letters from Egypt

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Lucie, Lady Duff-Gordon (1821–1869) was an English author and translator who wrote under the name Lucie Gordon. She is best known for her Letters from Egypt, 1863-1865 (1865) and Last Letters from Egypt (1875).[1] After a moving in a circle of some of the most prominent authors and poets of her day London,[1] she suffered from tuberculosis and in 1861,[2] and went to South Africa for the 'climate' which she hoped would help her health, living near the Cape of Good Hope for several years before travelling to Egypt in 1862. [more]

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B. L. PUTMAN WEALE INDISCREET LETTERS FROM PEKING

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Indiscreet Letters From Peking: Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day [more]

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Robert Palmer Letters from Mesopotamia

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‘Letters from Mesopotamia in 1915 and January, 1916, from Robert Palmer, who was killed in the Battle of [more]

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Robert Palmer Letters from Mesopotamia

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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Letters from Mesopotamia, by Robert Palmer This eBook is for the use of anyone [more]

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FRANCES ELIZABETH BARROW THE BIG NIGHTCAP LETTERS

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THE BIG NIGHTCAP LETTERS; BEING THE FIFTH BOOK OF THE SERIES. BY THE AUTHOR OF THE SIX NIGHTCAP BOOKS, "AUNT FANNY'S STORIES," [more]

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Frederich Schiller The Philosophical Letters

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Project Gutenberg's The Philosophical Letters, by Frederich Schiller This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no [more]

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Angel Daweson Letters From the Cascade

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In this story of a world far into the future with a magical world of alchemy, and a Goddess, Lineia, that takes care od people the world has started falling apart as teh two factions of people the Cristail and the Rovmaninov's fight for dominance. These are the letters that Rudolph an Alchemist living in a Cristailian Convent and his best friend Javari wrote back and forth to each other. In a time where peopel died every day the story of love and affection that these two show will have to stand teh test of war, famine, hate and betrayal... But can it? [more]

Keywords: fantasy, war, alchemy, cascade, love

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Voltaire . Letters on England

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François-Marie Arouet (French: [fʁɑ̃.swa ma.ʁi aʁ.wɛ]; 21 November 1694 – 30 May 1778), known by his nom de plume Voltaire(/voʊlˈtɛər/;[1] French: [vɔl.tɛːʁ]), was a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion, freedom of expression, and separation of church and state. Voltaire was a versatile writer, producing works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays, and historical and scientific works. He wrote more than 20,000 letters and more than 2,000 books and pamphlets. [more]

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Voltaire Letters On England

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François-Marie Arouet (French: [fʁɑ̃.swa ma.ʁi aʁ.wɛ]; 21 November 1694 – 30 May 1778), known by his nom de plume Voltaire(/voʊlˈtɛər/;[1] French: [vɔl.tɛːʁ]), was a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion, freedom of expression, and separation of church and state. Voltaire was a versatile writer, producing works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays, and historical and scientific works. He wrote more than 20,000 letters and more than 2,000 books and pamphlets. He was an outspoken advocate, despite the risk this placed him in under the strict censorship laws of the time. As a satirical polemicist, he frequently made use of his works to criticize intolerance, religious dogma, and the French institutions of his day. [more]

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