- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Note on Transliteration and Spelling
- Abbreviations Used in the Notes
- Prologue
-
1 A Zealous Attachment -
2 An Eastern Bridegroom -
3 Altogether an Arabian City -
4 Mansur Effendi -
5 A Closer Acquaintance with Cairo -
6 Never a More Happy Time -
7 Life on the Nile -
8 Nubia -
9 Hundred-Gated Thebes -
10 Minarets and Pyramids -
11 A Second Voyage to Nubia -
12 Nefeeseh -
13 Culture Shock -
14 Description of Egypt -
15 Manners and Costumes -
16 Old Musr Once More -
17 Blackening Many Quires -
18 Perception and Reality -
19 The Great Plague of 1835 -
20 Not a Mummy Crosses His Path -
21 Arabian Nights -
22 Scholar and Man of Letters -
23 Midlife -
24 An English Harem in Egypt -
25 Harat al-Sakkayin -
26 The Englishwoman in Egypt -
27 Suq al-Qawadis -
28 Hastings -
29 Worthing -
30 The Arabic-English Lexicon - Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
The Englishwoman in Egypt
The Englishwoman in Egypt
- Chapter:
- (p.544) 26 The Englishwoman in Egypt
- Source:
- Edward William Lane 1801–1876
- Author(s):
Jason Thompson
- Publisher:
- American University in Cairo Press
Sophia developed into a skilled writer. She relied heavily on the Description of Egypt manuscript, copying six chapters, or letters, from it nearly verbatim and drawing extensively on it for another five. These were primarily descriptions of Alexandria; the geography of Egypt, the Citadel, and Egyptian history, background subjects about which she knew little. The woman's point of view was precisely what Lane wanted his sister to supply. As a woman, she could go into women's spaces and interview women to gather information firsthand. He had written about women with apparent confidence in Modern Egyptians, but he knew how superficial his knowledge was.
Keywords: manuscript, Description of Egypt, Citadel, Egypt, Alexandria, Egyptian history, women
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Note on Transliteration and Spelling
- Abbreviations Used in the Notes
- Prologue
-
1 A Zealous Attachment -
2 An Eastern Bridegroom -
3 Altogether an Arabian City -
4 Mansur Effendi -
5 A Closer Acquaintance with Cairo -
6 Never a More Happy Time -
7 Life on the Nile -
8 Nubia -
9 Hundred-Gated Thebes -
10 Minarets and Pyramids -
11 A Second Voyage to Nubia -
12 Nefeeseh -
13 Culture Shock -
14 Description of Egypt -
15 Manners and Costumes -
16 Old Musr Once More -
17 Blackening Many Quires -
18 Perception and Reality -
19 The Great Plague of 1835 -
20 Not a Mummy Crosses His Path -
21 Arabian Nights -
22 Scholar and Man of Letters -
23 Midlife -
24 An English Harem in Egypt -
25 Harat al-Sakkayin -
26 The Englishwoman in Egypt -
27 Suq al-Qawadis -
28 Hastings -
29 Worthing -
30 The Arabic-English Lexicon - Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
