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25/10/2022

Mary Louisa Whately’s “Greek Slave” in Egypt

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In 1870, just after the Cretan Revolt of 1866-1869, Mary Louisa Whately (1824-1889), an English missionary in Egypt, published a story entitled “The Greek Slave,” returning to the figure of…

15/09/2020

Zakynthos: Murderers and Currants. Excerpt from a 1870 novel reprinted in The Northern Star.

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Excerpt from George Webb Dasent’s highly autobiographical novel, Annals of an Eventful Life (1870). The author explicitly declares the island of Zakynthos as the land of murderers and currants. The…

1870

Mary Louisa Whately’s “Greek Slave” in Egypt

Zakynthos: Murderers and Currants. Excerpt from a 1870 novel reprinted in The Northern Star.

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