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It was in 1818 that Lady Hester Stanhope took up her abode at Dar Joon, the position which, at once secluded and commanding took her fancy. It was small house standing of the summit of a conically ...

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English adventurer Lady Hester Stanhope blazed a trail across the Middle East a century before TE Lawrence, and her exploits were celebrated by writers and artists including George Eliot ...

Seidler adapted Kirsten Ellis’ biography of Lady Hester Stanhope, who rejected London society in the early 1800s to travel across the Middle East. She played a key role in inhibiting Napoleon ...

Each of them, however, was following in the footsteps of Lady Hester Stanhope, first among equals, and the subject of this spirited new biography. 'What are we going to do about this English ...

Lady Hester Stanhope set the standard for all those Victorian women who rampaged across the swamps of Africa, or through the passes of the Pamyrs, parasols aloft. A determined, flighty ...

The Lady Who Went Too Far tells the true story of Lady Hester Stanhope, who rejected London society in the early 1800s to travel across the Mediterranean and into the Middle East, where she played ...

In September of the same 1774, Stanhope proposed to Lady Hester Pitt (1755-1780, see the nearby portrait), his second cousin and a sister to his friend William Pitt the Younger, the future English ...