# The Secrets of the Harem

Author: Anonymous

Genre: Category: History - Other

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54893

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Secrets+of+the+Harem+Anonymous&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Many people have an idea that Turkish women absolutely do nothing that is either useful or ornamental aside from the decoration of their own persons, but that is not altogether true, as my residence of over a year in their country taught me, for they are really dextrous with the needle and do work which is as fine as that done by the sisters in the convents, or that of the wives of the feudal noblemen of olden times.

## Chapters

- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-secrets-of-the-harem-54893/chapters/1/index.md)