An Englishwoman in a Turkish harem (Registro nro. 119280)
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| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER | |
| LC control number | 15008974 |
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| Original cataloging agency | UtSlPG |
| 041 #7 - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
| Source of code | iso639-1 |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | DR |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Ellison, Grace, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1880-1935 |
| 245 13 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | An Englishwoman in a Turkish harem |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2026 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
| Source | rdacontent |
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| Media type term | computer |
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| Source | rdamedia |
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| Carrier type term | online resource |
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| General note | Release date is 2026-04-27 |
| 508 ## - CREATION/PRODUCTION CREDITS NOTE | |
| Creation/production credits note | Craig Kirkwood and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "An Englishwoman in a Turkish harem" by Grace Ellison is a collection of travel letters and cultural reportage written in the early 20th century. The work records an English visitor’s intimate observations of Ottoman domestic life, especially the women’s quarters, confronting Western misconceptions while reflecting on reform, religion, and everyday custom in Constantinople. Through close friendships with Turkish women, it explores veiling, education, court ceremony, and the emerging women’s movement within a society balancing tradition and change.<br/><br/>The opening of the book presents a preface that frames the letters as sympathetic impressions rather than politics or history, followed by an introduction by E. G. Browne defending Turks against European prejudice and sketching recent reforms and debates. The narrative then returns the English narrator to Stamboul and into her friend Fâtima’s household, evoking the city’s melancholy beauty, the quiet routines of the harem, and the intense hospitality that dissolves privacy and hinders letter-writing. She describes her devoted African maid “Miss Chocolate,” the contemplative pace of life, and new liberties for women since the 1908 revolution—walking in parks, visiting shops—set against persistent public scrutiny and religious conservatism. The text dismantles fantasies about harems and polygamy, highlights women’s organizing, and contrasts Western furnishings with a renewed pride in Turkish rooms, crafts, and manners. A vivid episode follows at the Dolma Bagtché Palace, where she views the baise-main from the harem side, notes eunuchs and court officials, and has a brief, understated audience with Sultan Mehmed V. The tone shifts when the household mourns the death of its patriarch, and she records the spare, democratic Turkish funeral customs and the stream of condolence visits from rich and poor alike. These chapters also clarify the real layout of a Turkish home, the rarity of polygamy, the ease yet infrequent use of divorce, and official efforts (backed by reformist ministers) to improve women’s health and education despite the constraints of veiling and seclusion. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | London: Metheun & Co., 1915 |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Turkey -- Social life and customs |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Women -- Turkey |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Browne, Edward Granville, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1862-1926 |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://archive.org/details/englishwomanintu00ellirich/page/n7/mode/2up">https://archive.org/details/englishwomanintu00ellirich/page/n7/mode/2up</a> |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78562">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78562</a> |
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