Abstract
Mary Wortley Montagu’s travel letters were written to some individuals such as
Lady Mar, Alexander Pope, and Abbé Conti. Katharine Branning’s travel letters, on the other
hand, have been written to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu but at the same time, the writer is
addressing these letters to her family, friends, readers and also Turkish people. Branning, who
has spent some thirty years in Turkey, is now explaining what has changed in the country
so far and sharing her personal experiences. Thus, this article examines two memoirs of two
women travel writers. The idea that these women travelogs had in mind was to be the voice
of Turkish people; therefore, they both wrote about Turkey, its people and their way of life.
So, this study will determine how Turkish women and Turkish way of life have been depicted
by two western women, British and American. Moreover, there will also be some focus on the
image of Turkish Women. The main intention is to discover whether there have been great
changes in the Turkish way of life and the living conditions after Montagu’s memoir, The
Turkish Embassy Letters.
Keywords
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Katharine Branning Travel Writers Turkish people Turkish Women Harem Image
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Abstract
Keywords
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Katharine Branning Seyahat Yazarları Türk halkı Türk Kadını Harem İmaj
References
- ALTINAY, Ahmet Refik, Lale Devri (1718-1730): Tarihe Yolculuk, Geçmiş Asırlarda Osmanlı Hayatı, Tarih Vakfı Yurt Yayınları, İstanbul, 2011.
- ARAT, Zehra F. “Introduction: Politics of Representation and Identity”, Deconstructing Images of “The Turkish Woman”, Ed. Zehra F. Arat, Palgrave Press, New York, 1999.
- BRANNING, Katharine, An American Women’s Letters to Turkey: Yes, I Would Love Another Glass of Tea, Blue Dome Press, New York, 2012.
- CRAVEN, Elizabeth Lady, A Journey Through the Crimea to Constantinople, G.G. J. and J. Robinson, London, 1789.
- DAVIS, Fanny, The Ottoman Lady: A Social History from 1718 to 1918, Greenwood Publishing Group, New York, 1986.
- DODD, Anna Bowman, In the Palaces of the Sultan, Dodd, Mead and Company, New York, 1903.
- ELLISON, Grace, (1915) An English Woman in a Turkish Harem, Cultures in Dialogue Series One, Gorgias Press, Piscataway, New Jersey, 2007.
- FELLOWS, Sir Charles, Travels and Researches in Asia Minor, More Particularly in the Province of Lycia, London, 1852.
- GARNETT, Lucy M. J. The Women of Turkey and Their Folk-Lore, David Nutt, London, 1891.
- GOFFMAN, Carolyn, “Introduction”, Behind Turkish Lattices: The Story of A Turkish Woman’s Life, by Hester Donaldson Jenkins, Gorgias Press, Piscataway, New Jersey, 2004.
- HANOUM, Zeynep, (1913) A Turkish Woman’s European Impressions. Gorgias Press, Piscataway, New Jersey, 2004.
- HEFFERNAN, Teresa and Reina Lewis. “Introduction to the Reprint: Feminist Dialogues Across Cultures: An English Woman in a Turkish Harem and the Turkish Harem in an English Woman”, An Englishwoman in a Turkish Harem, (1915) By Grace Ellison. Gorgias Press, New Jersey, 2007.
- JENKINS, Hester, Donaldson, (1911) Behind Turkish Lattices: The Story of a Turkish Woman’s life, Gorgias Press, Piscataway, New Jersey. 2004.
- KAÇMAZ, Ercan, Turkish Women, Education and Missionary Practices in the Works of Hester Donaldson Jenkins, (Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation), Dokuz Eylül University, Graduate School of Social Sciences, İzmir, 2014.
- MACAULAY, Rose, The Towers of Trebizond, Fontana Books, London, 1967.
- MONTAGU, Lady Mary Wortley, (1763) The Turkish Embassy Letters, Virago Press, London, 1994.
- ÖZTÜRK, Fatih, A New Historicist Approach to Rose Macaulay’s The Towers of Trebizond, (Unpublished Master’s Thesis), Erciyes University, Graduate School of Social Sciences, Kayseri, 2008.
- SCHICK, İrvin Cemil, “The Women of Turkey as Sexual Personae: Images from Western Literature”, Deconstructing Images of “The Turkish Woman”. Ed. Zehra F. Arat, Palgrave Press, New York, 1999.
- URGAN, Mina, İngiliz Edebiyatı Tarihi, Yapı Kredi Yayınları, İstanbul, 2012.
Details
| Primary Language | English |
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| Journal Section | Research Articles |
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| Publication Date | March 30, 2018 |
| Submission Date | September 4, 2017 |
| Published in Issue | Year 2017 Volume: 17 Issue: 35 |