tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post7204207638506733456..comments2024-03-23T12:38:46.260+00:00Comments on The History Girls: THE HAREM - Dianne HofmeyrMary Hoffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06241989732624913706noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-35506306514584495722012-11-26T18:23:47.141+00:002012-11-26T18:23:47.141+00:00Thanks Lydia and Moira. will have to look out for ...Thanks Lydia and Moira. will have to look out for those letters and also White Gold. fascinating that girls were taken from taken from the UK and Ireland. And brilliantly put Leslie.. "masculine fantasies about desirable and available women."Dianne Hofmeyrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18222157214605257030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-58810948293543290852012-11-26T18:01:38.819+00:002012-11-26T18:01:38.819+00:00A wonderful post indeed, and beautifully-illustrat...A wonderful post indeed, and beautifully-illustrated, as yours always are. I think you have reminded us that harems were for the male who ran them, not for the inhabitants, though they might intrigue their way to the top. The painters who depicted them were similarly fulfilling their masculine fantasies about desirable and available women..Leslie Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15105465949970430998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-41981762407499962222012-11-26T14:42:50.002+00:002012-11-26T14:42:50.002+00:00It absolutely brings to mind the gilded cage. Beau...It absolutely brings to mind the gilded cage. Beautiful but a prison all the same. Wonderful post.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-16958672379512781082012-11-26T12:54:43.326+00:002012-11-26T12:54:43.326+00:00This comment has been removed by the author.Moira Butterfieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17355420549929911500noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-25635138996738646252012-11-26T12:54:31.773+00:002012-11-26T12:54:31.773+00:00What beautiful surroundings, Dianne, and yet - as ...What beautiful surroundings, Dianne, and yet - as you say - there is an air of the trapped there - like a beautiful aviary. And, as you say, these girls might be completely isolated mentally, without the language of their masters. You may be interested to read White Gold by Giles Milton, which tells the forgotten history of slave-kidnapping from the coasts of the UK and Ireland. Some of those girls may have come from our own shores. Moira Butterfieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17355420549929911500noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-36783545641881571202012-11-26T11:56:37.817+00:002012-11-26T11:56:37.817+00:00What gorgeously transporting images! They remind m...What gorgeously transporting images! They remind me of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Turkish Embassy letters...Lydia Sysonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04613876235125755967noreply@blogger.com