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Lesley Blanch | |
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| Born | 6 June 1904 Chiswick, England |
| Died | 7 May 2007 (aged 102) Menton, France |
| Occupation | Writer |
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Lesley Blanch (6 June 1904 – 7 May 2007) was a British writer and traveller. She is best known for The Wilder Shores of Love, about Isabel Burton (who married the Arabist and explorer Richard), Jane Digby el-Mezrab (Lady Ellenborough, the society beauty who ended up living in the Syrian desert with a Bedouin chieftain), Aimée du Buc de Rivéry (a French convent woman captured by pirates and sent to the Sultan's harem in Istanbul), and Isabelle Eberhardt (a Swiss linguist who felt most comfortable in boy's clothes and lived among the Arabs in the Sahara).[1]
- ^ Fowler, Christoper. The Book of Forgotten Authors (2017), pp. 27-29