Andrea, Bernardette. The Lives of Girls and Women from the Islamic World in Early Modern British Literatre and Culture. University of Toronto Press, 2017.
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Textual Production | Queen Elizabeth I | As monarch, she maintained a remarkably wide-ranging correspondence. She wrote her first letter to a Muslim
sovereign, the Great Sophie of Persia (the Savafid emperor), in 1561. Andrea, Bernardette. The Lives of Girls and Women from the Islamic World in Early Modern British Literatre and Culture. University of Toronto Press, 2017. 43 |
Textual Production | Nawal El Saadawi | |
Textual Features | Fredrika Bremer | The focus of these volumes is explicitly the spiritual or religious aspect of life. FB was fascinated and repelled by the charisma and authoritarianism of the Catholic Church
, attracted by the Swiss Free Church |
Textual Features | May Crommelin | |
politics | Mary Carpenter | MC
was impartially critical of various Hindu
, Muslim
, and Parsi
practices, but realised that her reforms had to proceed without attempting to convert Indian women from their religion. She was convinced that Christianity |
politics | Mary Fisher | |
Cultural formation | Roma White | |
Cultural formation | Kamila Shamsie | |
Cultural formation | Kamila Shamsie | |
Cultural formation | Rudyard Kipling | As an English boy and then man in India, Rudyard must have been constantly aware of his status as one of the white race and administrative ruling class. His earliest memories of India were impressions... |
Cultural formation | Rosita Forbes | Her parents, she said (who were both members of the land-owning class, though in her father's case with strong egalitarian sympathies), had such a sensitive awareness of the next world that the permissible conveniences of... |
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