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Title: Sophia Poole: Writing the Self, Scribing Egyptian Women.
Author : Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics
Release Date : January 01, 2002
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
Pages : * pages
Size : 212 KB

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Sophia Poole (1804-91) was the sister of the Arabist Edward William Lane, She visited Egypt and wrote a book, in three volumes, about Egyptian women which was meant to be a companion book to Lane's Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians (1836). The Englishwoman in Egypt (1844-46), always regarded as a correct and objective representation of Egyptian women, is also a reflection of the writer's own visualization and inscription of her identity. Poole, this article argues, defined herself as both an English person and a woman, two aspects that were hard to reconcile at the time. Poole was faced with a conflict which she tried to resolve by both complying with her gender identity and creating a role for herself as a functional Britisher. Yet, she did this largely at the expense of Egyptian women. **********