CM
thanks various scholars, contacts, and elderly people who have given me the benefit of their personal reminiscences.
Mackworth, Cecily. The Destiny of Isabelle Eberhardt. Routledge and Paul, 1951.
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It was, she says, a copy of Eberhardt
's Dans l'Ombre chaude de l'Islam, offered...
Literary Setting
Timberlake Wertenbaker
Its protagonist is the nineteenth-century traveller and adventurer Isabelle Eberhardt
, who cross-dressed for her explorations of traditional, Islamic, nomad Arab cultures.
Cecily Mackworth
's carefully-researched The Destiny of Isabelle Eberhardt, 1951, was reprinted in 1985.
Textual Production
Cecily Mackworth
Cecily Mackworth
published another biography, The Destiny of Isabelle Eberhardt, about an intrepid Victorian traveller in Arab lands.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Sheridan, Anthony. “Obituary: Cecily Mackworth”. Guardian Unlimited, 7 Aug. 2006.
Travel
Cecily Mackworth
Researching the footsteps of the nineteenth-century Swiss-Armenian explorer and cross-dresser Isabelle Eberhardt
took CM
first to Geneva, then to Algiers.
Sheridan, Anthony. “Obituary: Cecily Mackworth”. Guardian Unlimited, 7 Aug. 2006.
Timeline
1908: Two books by the multicultural explorer Isabelle...
Writing climate item
1908
Two books by the multicultural explorer Isabelle Eberhardt
were posthumously published at Paris: Dans l'ombre chaude de l'Islam and Notes de route. Maroc, Algérie, Tunisie.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.