Travels of Lady Hester Stanhope

Forming the Completion of her Memoirs

By: Charles Lewis Meryon

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Paperback | 22 March 2012

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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."

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Non-Fiction Biographies & True Stories Memoirs History Specific Events & Topics in History Historical Geography Travel & Holidays Travel Writing Classic Travel Writing Regional & National History Asian History Middle Eastern History

Damascus
Lady Hester's intended journey to Palmyra
Precautions against riots
The author enters the desert
Reflections on the ruins of Palmyra
Hamah
Departure from Palmyra
Departure from Hamah
Residence at Latakia
Mode of life of Lady Hester Stanhope
Plague at Abra
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