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Letters from Egypt
The letters of Lady Duff Gordon are an introduction to her in person. She wrote as she talked, and that is not always the note of private correspondence, the pen being such an official instrument. Readers growing familiar with her voice will soon have assurance that, addressing the public, she would not have blotted a passage or affected a tone for the applause of all Europe.
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Review by Lucy T. Jones for Letters from Egypt
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Lady Duff Gordon’s account of her time in Egypt tells the at times heartbreaking, at times exhilerating story of an Englishwoman’s immersion into Egyptian culture during the 1860s–the first of its kind, and arguably the last. The impact her Letters had on future travellers and the understanding of Egypt imparted was perhaps, regrettably, not as wide or as deep as one would wish, considering the future of the Europeans in Egypt. Still today, her admirable open-mindedness and perspective is enlightening and humbling. She was a remarkable woman and her Letters are no less than a representation of that loveliness and dignity.