
Letters from Egypt
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The first volume of Lady Duff-Gordon’s ‘Letters from Egypt’ was published by Macmillan and Co. in May 1865, with a preface by her mother, Sarah Austin, who edited them, and who had felt obliged to omit much that might have given offence and made Lady Duff- Gordon’s life uncomfortable in Egypt. This book is the best known and most interesting of her productions. In 1875 a volume containing the ‘Last Letters from Egypt,’ to which were added ‘Letters from the Cape,’ reprinted from ‘Vacation Tourists’ (1864), with a memoir of Lady Duff- Gordon by her daughter Janet Ross was published by Macmillan and Co. A second edition appeared in 1876. In 1902 a revised edition was published by R. Brimley Johnson with a memoir of Lady Duff- Gordon by her daughter Janet Ross and a new introduction by George Meredith. This had the letters as they were written, omitting only the purely family matter which her daughter deemed as of no interest to the public.
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Lucie Duff-Gordon
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Lucie, Lady Duff-Gordon was an English author and translator who wrote as Lucie Gordon. She is best known for her Letters from Egypt, 1863–1865 (1865) and Last Letters from Egypt (1875), most of...
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