Category: Biographies
Mehemet Ali’s hospitality to travellers--Prince Pückler Muskau’s appreciation of it--His reception of the Author--Reflections on passports--Lady Hester’s pecuniary difficulties--Her reluctance to reduce her establishment--Her restlessness--Presents in Eastern countries--Severi...
Mehemet Ali’s hospitality to travellers--Prince Pückler Muskau’s appreciation of it--His reception of the Author--Reflections on passports--Lady Hester’s pecuniary difficulties-...
3. CHAPTER III.4. CHAPTER IV.Prince Pückler Muskau’s arrival at Jôon--His costume--Physiognomical doctrines--The Prince’s remarks on Lady Hester--Dr. Bowring--Lady Hester’s remarks on the Prince--Race of Ab...
5. CHAPTER V.Prince Pückler Muskau’s style of writing--Talking beneficial to health--Young men of Lady Hester’s time--Lady Hester’s superstitious belief in good and bad days--Hamâady, the ex...
6. CHAPTER VI.Author’s dilemma--Apprehensions of poisoning--Mr. Cooper’s dray-boy--Memoirs of a Peeress--Lady B. and the Duchess of---- Novel scheme for making maids obedient--English servant...
7. CHAPTER VII.Journey to Beyrout--Death of Mrs. K--- --Mr. George Robinson and M. Guys--The River Damoor--Khaldy--Letter from Lady Hester to Mr. K.--Lord Prudhoe--Mrs. Moore--Lady Hester’s di...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Petty annoyances in hot countries--Lady Hester refuses Duke Maximilian’s portrait--She insists on the Author’s leaving her--Continuation of the negro Wellington’s case--Progress...
9. CHAPTER IX.Vessel hired for the Author’s departure--Lady Hester’s intention of writing her Memoirs--Letter from Lady Hester to Sir Francis Burdett--From Lady Hester to Count Wilsensheim--E...
10. CHAPTER I.March 20.--Lady Hester rose about three in the afternoon, and went into her garden: I joined her about five o’clock. Spring had already begun to display its verdant livery. The...
11. CHAPTER II.Mehemet Ali’s hospitality to travellers--Prince Pückler Muskau’s appreciation of it--His reception of Doctor M.--Reflections on passports--Lady Hester’s pecuniary difficulties--...
12. CHAPTER III.Tuesday, April 3, 1838.--I have frequently been asked this question in England--“How did Lady Hester pass her time in the solitude of the Lebanon?” and, if my answers were gener...
13. CHAPTER IV.Prince Pückler Muskau’s arrival at Jôon--His costume--Physiognomical doctrines--The Prince’s remarks on Lady Hester--Dr. Bowring--Lady Hester’s remarks on the Prince--Race of Ab...
14. CHAPTER V.Prince Pückler Muskau’s style of writing--Talking beneficial to health--Young men of Lady Hester’s time--Lady Hester’s superstitious belief in good and bad days--Hamâady, the ex...
15. CHAPTER VI.Dr. M.’s dilemma--Apprehensions of poisoning--Mr. Cooper’s dray-boy-- Memoirs of a Peeress--Lady B. and the Duchess of ----Novel scheme for making maids obedient--English servan...
16. CHAPTER VII.Journey to Beyrout--Death of Mrs. K---- --Mr. George Robinson and M. Guys--The River Damoor--Khaldy--Letter from Lady Hester to Mr. K.--Lord Prudhoe--Mrs. Moore--Lady Hester’s d...
17. CHAPTER VIII.Petty annoyances in hot countries--Lady Hester refuses Duke Maximilian’s portrait--She insists on my leaving her--Continuation of the negro Wellington’s case--Progress of the Dr...
18. CHAPTER IX.Vessel hired for Dr. M.’s departure--Lady Hester’s intention of writing her Memoirs--Letter from Lady Hester to Sir Francis Burdett--From Lady Hester to Count Wilsensheim--Event...