Lucie Duff Gordon
About the author:
Lucie, Lady Duff-Gordon (1821–1869) was an English author and translator who wrote under the name Lucie Gordon. She is best known for her Letters from Egypt, 1863–1865 (1865) and Last Letters from Egypt (1875).
After moving in a circle of some of the most prominent authors and poets of her day in London, she contracted tuberculosis and in 1861, and went to South Africa for the "climate", which she hoped would help her health, living near the Cape of Good Hope for several years before travelling to Egypt in 1862.
In Egypt, she settled in Luxor, where she learned Arabic and wrote many letters to her husband and her mother about her observations of Egyptian culture, religion and customs. Many critics regard her as being "progressive" and tolerant, although she also held problematic views on various racial groups. Her letters home are celebrated for their humour, her outrage at the ruling Ottomans, and many personal stories gleaned from the people around her. In many ways they are also typical of Orientalist travellers' tales of that time.
Most of the letters are addressed to her husband, Alexander Duff-Gordon and her mother, Mrs Sarah Austin.
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List of letters:
- To Mrs. Austin. GRAND CAIRO, Tuesday, November 11, 1862.
- To Sir Alexander Duff Gordon. BOAT OFF EMBABEH, November 21, 1862.
- To Mrs. Austin. FESHN, Monday, November 30, 1862.
- To Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, THEBES, December 20, 1862.
- To Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, THEBES, February 11, 1863.
- To Mrs. Austin, A FEW MILES BELOW GIRGEH, March 7, 1863.
- To Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, March 10, 1863.
- To Mrs. Austin, CAIRO, April 9, 1863.
- To Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, CAIRO, April 13, 1863.
- To Mr. Tom Taylor, CAIRO, April 18, 1863.
- To Mrs. Austin, ALEXANDRIA, May 12, 1863.
- To Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, ALEXANDRIA, May 12, 1863.
- To Mrs. Austin, MASR EL-KAHIRA, CAIRO, May 21, 1863.
- To Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, CAIRO, May 25, 1863.
- To Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, ALEXANDRIA, October 19, 1863.
- To Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, ALEXANDRIA, October 26, 1863.
- To Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, KAFR ZEYAT, October 31, 1863.
- To Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, CAIRO, November 14, 1863.
- To Mrs. Austin, CAIRO, November 21, 1863.
- To Mrs. Ross, CAIRO, December 1, 1863.
- To Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, CAIRO, December 2, 1863.
- To Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, CAIRO, December 17, 1863.
- To Mrs. Austin, BOULAK, ON BOARD A RIVER STEAM-BOAT, December 27, 1863.
- ???, LUXOR, Tuesday, February 8, 1864.
- To Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, ON BOARD THE STEAMER, NEAR SIOUT, Sunday, January 3, 1864.
- To Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, Tuesday, January 5, 1864.
- To Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, Wednesday, January 20, 1864.
- To Mrs. Austin, Sunday, February 7, 1864
- To Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, LUXOR, February 12, 1864.
- To Mrs. Austin, LUXOR, February 19, 1864.
- To Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, LUXOR, February 26, 1864.
- To Mrs. Austin, LUXOR, March 1, 1864.
- To Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, LUXOR, March 7, 1864.
- To Mr. Tom Taylor, March 16, 1864.
- To Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, LUXOR, March 22, 1864.
- To Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, LUXOR, April 6, 1864.
- To Mrs. Ross, LUXOR, April 7, 1864.
- To Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, LUXOR, April 14, 1864.
- To Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, LUXOR, May 15, 1864, Day before Eed-el-Kebir (Bairam).
- To Mrs. Austin, LUXOR, Monday, May 23, 1864.
- To Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, LUXOR, Sunday, June 12, 1864.
- To Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, LUXOR, June 26, 1864.
- To Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, LUXOR, August 13, 1864.
- To Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, CAIRO, October 9, 1864.
- To Mrs. Austin, CAIRO, October 21, 1864.
- To Mrs. Austin, ON THE NILE, Friday, December 23, 1864.
- To Mrs. Austin, LUXOR, January 2, 1865.
- To Dowager Lady Duff Gordon, LUXOR, January 8, 1865.
- To Mrs. Austin, LUXOR, January 9, 1865.
- To Mrs. Ross, LUXOR, February 7, 1865.
- To Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, LUXOR, February 7, 1867.
- To Miss Austin, LUXOR, February 7, 1865.
- To Mrs. Austin, LUXOR, March 13, 1865.
- To Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, LUXOR, March 30, 1865.
- To Mrs. Ross, LUXOR, March 25, 1865.
- To Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, April, 1865.
- To Mrs. Austin, LUXOR, April 3, 1865.
- To Mrs. Ross, LUXOR, April 3, 1865.
- To Mrs. Austin, LUXOR, April 29, 1865.
- To Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, NILE BOAT, URANIA, May, 1865.
- To Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, CAIRO, June 16, 1865.
- To Mrs. Austin, ALEXANDRIA, October 28, 1865.
- To Mrs. Austin, ALEXANDRIA, November 2, 1865.
- To Mrs. Austin, CAIRO, Monday, November 27, 1865.
- To Mrs. Austin, CAIRO, December 5, 1865.
- To Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, THEBES, From December 25, 1865, to January 3, 1866.
- To Duff Gordon, LUXOR, January 3, 1866.
- To Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, Monday, January 15, 1866.
- To Mrs. Austin, LUXOR, February 15, 1866.
- To Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, LUXOR, February 22, 1866.
- To Mrs. Ross, February 22, 1866.
- To Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, Tuesday, March 6, 1866.
- To Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, THEBES, March 17, 1866.
- To Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, March_ 31, 1866.
- To Mrs. Austin, BAIRAM, April, 1866.
- To Mrs. Ross, EED EL KEBEER, Wednesday, April, 1866.
- To Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, LUXOR, May 10, 1866.
- To Duff Gordon, CAIRO, June 22, 1866.
- To Mrs. Austin, OFF BOULAK, CAIRO, July 10, 1866.
- To , CAIRO, July 17, 1866.
- To Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, OFF BOULAK, August 20, 1866.
- To Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, OFF BOULAK, August 27, 1866.
- To Mrs. Austin, OFF BOULAK, September 21, 1886.
- To Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, OFF BOULAK, September 21, 1886.
- To Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, CAIRO, October 15, 1866.
- To Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, OFF BOULAK, October 19, 1866.
- To Mrs. Austin, OFF BOULAK, October 25, 1866.
- To Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, LUXOR, November 21, 1866
- To Mrs. Ross, LUXOR, December 5, 1866.
- To Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, LUXOR, December 31, 1886.
- To Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, LUXOR, January 12, 1867.
- To Mrs. Austin, LUXOR, January 14, 1867.
- To Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, LUXOR, January 22, 1867.
- To Mrs. Austin, LUXOR, January 26, 1867.
- To Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, LUXOR, February 3, 1867.
- To Mrs. Austin, LUXOR, March 6, 1867.
- To Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, March 7, 1867.
- To Mrs. Austin, LUXOR, April 12, 1867.
- To Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, LUXOR, April 19, 1867.
- To Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, LUXOR, May 15, 1867.
- To Mrs. Austin, LUXOR, May 23, 1867.
- To Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, BENISOUEF, June 30, 1867.
- To Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, CAIRO, July 8, 1867.
- To Mrs. Austin, BOULAK, July 28, 1867.
- To Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, BOULAK, July 29, 1867.
- To Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, BOULAK, August 7, 1867.
- To Mrs. Austin, BOULAK, August 8, 1867.
- To Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, BOULAK, September 7, 1867.
- To Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, BOULAK, BOAT MARIE LOUISE, October 17, 1867.
- To Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, URANIA, BOULAK, October 21, 1867.
- To Mrs. Ross, BOULAK, November 3, 1867.
- To Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, LUXOR, December 20, 1867.
- To Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, ON BOARD THE URANIA, January, 1868.
- To Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, LUXOR, April, 1868.
- To Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, MINIEH, May, 1868.
- To Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, BOULAK, June 14, 1868.
- To Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, BOULAK, October 22, 1868.
- To Alick, BOULAK, November 6, 1868.
- To Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, ASSOUAN, January 25, 1869.
- To Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, BOULAK, June 15, 1869.
- To Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, HELWAN, OPPOSITE BEDRESHAYN, July 9, 1869.
- To Mrs. Austin, Tuesday, 7 Ramadan.