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Lucie Duff Gordon
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The Mistress Of Nothing
Lady Duff Gordon is the toast of Victorian London. But when her debilitating tuberculosis means exile, she and her devoted lady's maid, Sally, set sail for Egypt. It is Sally who describes, with a mixture of wonder and trepidation, the odd ménage marshalled by the resourceful Omar, which travels down the Nile to a new life in Luxor. As Lady Duff Gordon undoes her stays and takes to native dress, throwing herself into weekly salons; language lessons; excursions to the tombs; Sally too adapts to a new world, affording her heady and heartfelt freedoms never known before. But freedom is a luxury that a maid can ill-afford, and when Sally grasps more than her status entitles her to, she is brutally reminded that she is mistress of nothing.
Letters From Egypt, 1863 - 1865
From travellers whose course of wild adventure and whose manifold and uncommon gifts put a pressure upon the reader in following them, similar to that felt by them in exploring, it is very delightful to turn to so small and readable, but fresh and pleasant a volume, as Lady Duff Gordon's. The scenes she visits and describes are supposed to be well known, but assuredly she has the merit of investing them with all interest very new, arising, principally, from her watchfulness over all human ways, and her own interest in every aspect of human life. The letters are written in a singularly captivating and vigorous English style. They possess the rare virtue of enabling the reader to realize tbe position of the writer and the true aspect of the people.
Lucie Duff Gordon in England, South Africa and Egypt
"Lucie Duff Gordon was a world apart from her Victorian counterparts. An intellectual, traveller, writer and progressive social commentator, she and her husband led a bohemian, eccentric and highly unconventional life in London, socialising with such luminaries as Tennyson, Dickens and Thackeray. In 1862, however, Lucie was diagnosed with tuberculosis and on the advice of her doctor, left her husband and three children to live in Egypt, where she would spend the rest of her life." - from I.B. Taurus http://www.ibtauris.com/ (summary taken from the book review of Lucie Duff Gordon: A Passage to Egypt by Katherine Frank).
A Woman of Temperament
Single mother. Fashion pioneer. Titanic survivor. In her own words, the story of a remarkable woman who built an international fashion empire, survived the sinking of the Titanic, and invented the catwalk show. Left a near-penniless single mother
Early Printed Books
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Lady Duff Gordon’s Letters from Egypt
Reproduction of the original: Lady Duff Gordon’s Letters from Egypt by Janet Ross
Lady Duff Gordon’s Letters from Egypt
Reproduction of the original: Lady Duff Gordon’s Letters from Egypt by Janet Ross
Discretions & Indiscretions
Lady Duff-Gordon's memoirs of fashion, Society and the theatre.
