Mary Beatrice Blood

The story follows Gertrude Elizabeth Blood(later LCC) and her sister Mary Beatrice to a Turkish bath with their dragoman's wife and daughter-in-law. They expected merely to observe, but on arrival were told to disrobe.

The second of the surviving Blood children, Mary Beatrice , was born in December 1854.

Back from continental Europe, Gertrude and her sister Mary were educated by governesses at home, while their brother received his schooling in England, at Harrow . Although the girls' lessons consisted of the usual singing...