Lucie Duff Gordon A Passage to Egypt

Lucie Duff Gordon was a world apart from her Victorian counterparts. An intellectual, traveler, writer and progressive social commentator, she and her husband led a bohemian, eccentric and highly unconventional life in London, socializing with such luminaries as Tennyson, Dickens and Thackeray. In 1862, however, Lucie was diagnosed with tuberculosis and on the advice of her doctor, left her husband and three children to live in Egypt, where she would spend the rest of her life. Drawing on Duff Gordon's correspondence with her family, Katherine Frank elegantly relates the dramatic transformation that she underwent as she discarded the restrictions of Victorian England, shunned the English community in Cairo and immersed herself in the Egyptian way of life--"the real, true Arabian nights."Frank, Katherine is the author of 'Lucie Duff Gordon A Passage to Egypt', published 2007 under ISBN 9781845113315 and ISBN 1845113314.