Henrietta Liston's Travels: The Turkish Journals, 1812–1823

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The Turkish Journals, 1812–1823

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Edited by Patrick Hart, Valerie Kennedy, Dora Petherbridge, F. Özden Mercan

Publisher:: Edinburgh University Press
Online publication date:: December 2020
Print publication year:: 2020
Online ISBN:: 9781474467384

Subjects:: Literature, Literary Texts

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Henrietta Liston’s Constantinople journal is a significant and hitherto virtually unknown work of women's travel writing. As the wife of the British Ambassador to the Porte, Liston had privileged access to parts of the Sultan’s entourage and the Ottoman elite. Her journal details her journey by sea from England to Istanbul and the diplomatic mission’s Mediterranean stops at the time of the Napoleonic wars and reflects on the political situation of Europe, focusing in particular on the British and the Ottoman Empires. Yet it also offers a human-centred version of the picturesque, and includes depictions of a plague-ridden Constantinople, a visit to the harem of the Kaimakam, excursions to Belgrade Village, the presentation of ambassadors in the Seraglio, and the departure of pilgrims on the hajj. This edition features Liston’s journal alongside a selection of her other, shorter writings from Turkey, including accounts of key diplomatic incidents and personal experiences.

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Henrietta Liston's Travels

The Turkish Journals, 1812–1823

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Frontmatter
pp i-ii

Contents
pp iii-iv

List of Illustrations
pp v-v

Acknowledgements
pp vi-vii

Map 1
pp viii-viii

Map 2
pp ix-x

Part One - Critical Introduction
pp 1-2

The Eye of a Stranger
pp 3-3

1 - ‘Out of your world’: Liston’s Turkish Travels
pp 4-8

2 - Approaching Henrietta Liston: A Biographical Sketch
pp 9-17

3 - The Diplomatic Context
pp 17-22

4 - The Ottoman Social and Political Contexts
pp 22-29

5 - Encountering Liston’s Turkish Writings
pp 29-39

6 - Locating Liston: Women’s Travel Writing and the Ottoman Empire
pp 40-59

7 - The Manuscripts: Composition, Revision, Dating, Readership
pp 59-68

Part Two - Liston’s Turkish Writings
pp 69-70

A Note on the Text
pp 71-72

The Turkish Journal, 1812–14: NLS MS 5709
pp 73-184

Selected Further Writings

1 - Letter from Henrietta Liston to Dick Ramage, 6 March 1813: (NLS MS 5640 ff. 55–58)
pp 185-191

2 - Further Writings on Constantinople, 1814–15: (NLS MS 5708 ff. 1–2 and ff. 4–10)
pp 192-203

3 - Aegean Travels, 1815: (NLS MS 5710 ff. 1–4r)
pp 203-207

4 - The Return to Constantinople, 1817: (NLS MS 5711 ff. 12v–13r and ff. 24v–28r)
pp 207-216

5 - Departure from Constantinople, 1820:(NLS MS 5712 ff. 3r–4r)
pp 217-219

Chronology of the Life and Times of Henrietta Liston
pp 220-222

Bibliography
pp 223-234

Index
pp 235-246

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