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The Mistress Of Nothing

Kate Pullinger

Paperback | Pages: 272 pages

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Title	:	The Mistress Of Nothing
Author	:	Kate Pullinger
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 272 pages
Published	:	July 9th 2009 by McArthur & Co
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Northern Africa. Egypt. Cultural. Canada. Africa

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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 menage marshalled by the resourceful Omar, which travels down the Nile to a new life in Luxor. When 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.

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Original Title:	The Mistress of Nothing
ISBN:	1846687098 (ISBN13: 9781846687099)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Lucie, Lady Duff-Gordon, Sally Naldrett, Omar, Mabrouka
Setting:	Luxor,1864(Egypt) Egypt
Literary Awards:	Scotiabank Giller Prize Nominee (2009), Governor General's
Literary Awards:	/ Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général for Fiction (2009)

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I thoroughly enjoyed this story, based on the real-life, Egyptian retreat of Lady Lucie Duff Gordon at the end of her life, when she was suffering from rampant TB. The central protagonist and narrator of this story, Sally Naldrett, was the loyal and devoted lady's maid to Lady Duff Gordon but little else is known about her. Lady Duff Gordon and Sally travel down the Nile and set up home in the arid air of the south of Egypt. Despite being good hearted and seemingly liberal (her ladyship treats

i honestly have NO idea why this doesn't get better reviews around here. it is fantastic! perhaps it's a bit too literary for the average goodreader? not by much, though, and the prose is gorgeous. i stayed up late to finish it.pg13 for unmarried relations of the *fade to black* type, illness, war/rebellion/suffering, and perhaps an epithet or two.

This is a fabulous book. I read it in one sitting and must say that Pullinger manages to keep you interested in a domestic story of manners for the entire length. It is a very interesting insight into Victorian mores and make me wonder at whether the role between domestic staff and their employers has changed much. The presumptions which dominate the relationship between Lady Duff and her lady's made, Sally, are fascinating. The fact that the mistress treats everyone as if it is a privilege to

Mistress of Nothing tells the story of Sally, Lady Duff Gorgan's nurse and maid. When Lady Duff Gordon becomes ill the two women travel to Egypt in hopes that the dry climate will improve her health. Sally faithfully follows her mistress, spending every waking minute caring for her, utterly devoted and loyal. But Egypt awakens something new in Sally and when the bond between Lady and maid is tested, Lady Duff Gordon proves a formidible and cunning enemy.The setting and backdrop of the story, a

The Mistress of Nothing takes it's start from real life. Lady Lucie Duff Gordon wrote her famous Letters from Egypt in the 1860's after being forced to go there from her home in England because of consumption. Although Gordon was a famous entertainer and trendsetter in England she was not rich. So when she was forced to leave her family and go away for her health she was only able to bring one maid along with her, Sally Naldrett. Once in Egypt both women go native. They abandon their Victorian

I received an Advance Reader's Edition of this book, and thought it looked like it was worth trying. I'm glad I did, because it was a really good story, and provided an interesting glimpse into life in Egypt in the 1860s.The story is told from the standpoint of Sally, lady's maid to Lady Duff Gordon, a society woman in London, who is extremely well thought of in social circles there. Lady Gordon suffers from what we know to be tuberculosis, but what is not really understood at the time, and it

This is a fabulous book. I read it in one sitting and must say that Pullinger manages to keep you interested in a domestic story of manners for the entire length. It is a very interesting insight into Victorian mores and make me wonder at whether the role between domestic staff and their employers has changed much. The presumptions which dominate the relationship between Lady Duff and her lady's made, Sally, are fascinating. The fact that the mistress treats everyone as if it is a privilege to