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Sophia Lane Poole (1804–1891) was an English orientalist. She was the estranged wife of Edward Poole and sister of the famous orientalist Edward William Lane, who suggested that she and her sons join him in Egypt so that she could report on the female side of Egypt's gender-segregated society. The result was her book of letters ''The Englishwoman in Egypt: Letters from Cairo'' (subtitled ''written during a residence there in 1842''). She wrote that Like her brother, Poole adopted local customs and dress in order to gain acceptance in Egyptian social circles. An Egyptian acquaintance of Edward Lane wrote that his household consisted of his mother and sister, "(of whom ) always wore the Egyptian dress, and never left the house except heavily swathed and veiled. The Sheykh al-Dessouki, who frequented Lane’s house regularly, never saw their faces."〔Leila Ahmed "Edward W Lane", Longstaff, London, 1978〕 However, Poole herself hated veiling, and writes that she veiled only in order to gain access to harems, bathhouses, and other "women-only" areas. She died on 6 May 1891 at the home of her eldest son, Reginald Stuart Poole (1822–1895), at the British Museum, and was buried at West Norwood Cemetery. Another son, Edward Stanley Poole (1830–1867), became an Arabic scholar and editor of the ''Encyclopædia Britannica''. == References == *Leila Ahmed "Edward W Lane", Longstaff, London, 1978 * Elizabeth Baigent, ‘Poole, Sophia Lane (1804–1891)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 (accessed 12 Oct 2010 ) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sophia Lane Poole」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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