Letters from Egypt (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Victorian Travel Letters from the Nile Valley on Egyptian Village Life, Illness, and EmpireBy Lucie Lady Duff Gordon
Length13h 27m
About this audiobook
Letters from Egypt gathers Lucie, Lady Duff Gordon's vivid correspondence from the Nile valley, especially Luxor, where daily life, illness, ritual, taxation, famine, and village politics are rendered with unusual immediacy. Written in an elegant epistolary style, the book belongs to Victorian travel literature yet resists its more imperial habits: Duff Gordon's prose is observant, humane, and often ethnographic, privileging Arabic idiom, local voices, and the lives of the fellahin over picturesque antiquarian spectacle. Duff Gordon was born Lucie Austin into a distinguished intellectual household: her father, John Austin, was a legal philosopher, and her mother, Sarah Austin, a noted translator and writer. Married to Sir Alexander Duff Gordon and long connected with liberal literary circles, she went to Egypt in the 1860s seeking relief from tuberculosis. Illness made her a resident rather than a tourist, and her linguistic curiosity and sympathy for ordinary Egyptians shaped the letters' distinctive moral authority. This book is recommended to readers interested in travel writing, Middle Eastern history, women's authorship, and the cultural politics of empire. It remains compelling because its finest pages combine literary grace with rare attentiveness to human dignity.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
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GenreTravel
Length13 hrs 27 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 26, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2INTRODUCTION
3MEMOIR
4November 11, 1862: Mrs. Austin
5November 21, 1862: Sir Alexander Duff Gordon
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6November 30, 1862: Mrs. Austin
7December 20, 1862: Sir Alexander Duff Gordon
8February 11, 1863: Sir Alexander Duff Gordon
9March 7, 1863: Mrs. Austin
10March 10, 1863: Sir Alexander Duff Gordon
11April 9, 1863: Mrs. Austin
12April 13, 1863: Sir Alexander Duff Gordon
13April 18, 1863: Mr. Tom Taylor
14May 12, 1863: Mrs. Austin
15May 12, 1863: Sir Alexander Duff Gordon
16May 21, 1863: Mrs. Austin
17May 25, 1863: Sir Alexander Duff Gordon
18October 19, 1863: Sir Alexander Duff Gordon
19October 26, 1863: Sir Alexander Duff Gordon
20October 31, 1863: Sir Alexander Duff Gordon
21November 14, 1863: Sir Alexander Duff Gordon
22November 21, 1863: Mrs. Austin
23December 1, 1863: Mrs. Ross
24December 2, 1863: Sir Alexander Duff Gordon
25December 17, 1863: Sir Alexander Duff Gordon
26December 27, 1863: Mrs. Austin
27January 3, 1864: Sir Alexander Duff Gordon
28January 5, 1864: Sir Alexander Duff Gordon
29January 20, 1864: Sir Alexander Duff Gordon
30February 7, 1864: Mrs. Austin
31February 8, 1864: February 8, 1864
32February 12, 1864: Sir Alexander Duff Gordon
33February 19, 1864: Mrs. Austin
34February 26, 1864: Sir Alexander Duff Gordon
35March 1, 1864: Mrs. Austin
36March 7, 1864: Sir Alexander Duff Gordon
37March 16, 1864: Mr. Tom Taylor
38March 22, 1864: Sir Alexander Duff Gordon
39April 6, 1864: Sir Alexander Duff Gordon
40April 7, 1864: Mrs. Ross
41April 14, 1864: Sir Alexander Duff Gordon
42May 15, 1864: Sir Alexander Duff Gordon
43May 23, 1864: Mrs. Austin
44June 12, 1864: Sir Alexander Duff Gordon
45June 26, 1864: Sir Alexander Duff Gordon
46August 13, 1864: Sir Alexander Duff Gordon
47October 9, 1864: Sir Alexander Duff Gordon
48October 21, 1864: Mrs. Austin
49December 23, 1864: Mrs. Austin
50January 2, 1865: Mrs. Austin
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