Travels of Lady Hester Stanhope

Forming the Completion of her Memoirs

Charles Lewis Meryon

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Cambridge University Press
22 March 2012

Memoirs; Middle Eastern history; Historical geography; Classic travel writing

Series: Travels of Lady Hester Stanhope 3 Volume Paperback Set

The adventurous and unconventional Lady Hester Stanhope (1776–1839) set off to travel to the East in the early nineteenth century. She had been hostess to her uncle, British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger, and after his death she received a government pension and decided to leave England. Her personal physician Charles Meryon (1783–1877) wrote this three-volume memoir of their travels, first published in 1846. She had a reputation as an eccentric, but thought of herself as the 'Queen of the desert' and indeed achieved considerable influence in the places she travelled to. Eventually she settled in the Lebanon, where she lived out the remainder of her life. Volume 2 begins in Damascus, and includes Lady Hester's dangerous trip to Palmyra, where she had been advised it would be impossible for a woman to go. It also includes accounts of plague in Syria, and of Bedouin life.

By: Charles Lewis Meryon
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: Volume 2
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 530g
ISBN: 9781108042291
ISBN 10: 1108042295
Series: Travels of Lady Hester Stanhope 3 Volume Paperback Set
Pages: 418
Publication Date: 22 March 2012
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Damascus; 2. Lady Hester's intended journey to Palmyra; 3. Precautions against riots; 4. The author enters the desert; 5. Reflections on the ruins of Palmyra; 6. Hamah; 7. Departure from Palmyra; 8. Departure from Hamah; 9. Residence at Latakia; 10. Mode of life of Lady Hester Stanhope; 11. Plague at Abra.