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Lady Anne Blunt in the Middle East : politics, travel and the idea of empire
Lady Anne Blunt was a woman ahead of her time. After marrying the poet Wilfrid Scawen Blunt in 1869, the pair travelled extensively in the Middle East, developing an especial fondness for the region and its people. In this book, Lisa Lacy explores the life, travels and political ideas of Lady Anne. With a broad knowledge of the Arab world, she challenged prevailing assumptions and, as a result of her aristocratic heritage, exerted strong influence in British political circles. Her extensive journeys in the Mediterranean region, North Africa, Egypt, Arabia, Syria, Iraq and Persia formed the basis of her knowledge about the Middle East. She pursued an intimate knowledge of Bedouin life in Arabia, the town culture of Syria and Mesopotamia and the politics of nationalism in Egypt. Her husband, Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, gained a reputation as an anti-imperialist political activist. Lacy shows that Lady Anne was her husband's partner in marriage, politics and travel and exerted strong influence not only on his ideas, but on the ideas of the British political elite of the era.
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Oriental Interests, Interesting Orients
This essay considers epistemological vocabularies in aristocratic women’s travel writing of the Victorian period, examining the ways in which travelogues use ideas of ‘interest’ to stage the processing and dissemination of knowledge about, and personal experience of, ‘the Orient’ over the course of the nineteenth century. Each of the three travellers who are the main focus of my essay develops her own distinctive model of engagement with the regions in which she journeys: models which nevertheless all turn upon particular invocations of concepts of ‘interest’. I will first discuss what aspects of knowledge these writers are interested in and how they represent their own interest in the East, then analyse the ways through which the publication of their writings appeals to the interests of their British readership, before asking how the travellers’ best interests are furthered or hindered by the modes of epistemological authority they formulate. Ultimately, I argue that these inflections of interest reflect both the British upper class’s increasing emphasis on elite societal and cultural responsibility and, more generally, changing Victorian models of epistemological engagement with the Orient.
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APPENDIX TO CHRONICLE: Deaths
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PBS News Hour for February 27, 2025
President Trump meets with the U.K. prime minister as relations with Europe grow increasingly fraught. Elon Musk says DOGE accidentally cut funding for Ebola prevention. The country's two Black women senators discusses serving together in an historic first. Famed actor Gene Hackman has died. Education leaders face a deadline to cut diversity initiatives under new Trump guidelines. The FDA cancels a crucial meeting to update flu vaccines, sparking concerns from health officials. More pregnant women are experiencing life-threatening sepsis in the wake of strict abortion laws. GUESTS: Lizzie Presser, Paul Offit, David Law, Angel Perez, Craig Spencer, Lisa Blunt Rochester, Angela Alsobrooks
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Democratic National Convention. Aired 7-8p ET
CNN's special coverage of the Democratic National Convention inChicago, Illinois. GUESTS: Gretchen Whitmer, Chuck Schumer, Stephanie Grisham, RaphaelWarnock, Roy Cooper
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