Patrick Hart is Assistant Professor in the Department of English Literature at Bilkent University, Ankara. He is founder and editor of the Journal of the Northern Renaissance. Valerie Kennedy is Assistant Professor in the Department of English Literature at Bilkent University, Ankara. She is author of Edward Said: A Critical Introduction (Polity, 2000). Dora Petherbridge is Curator of North American and Commonwealth Collections at the National Library of Scotland.

Henrietta Liston’s Constantinople Journal captures readers from its opening sentence, as if it were a novel. This meticulously edited, highly readable and thoughtfully modernised edition is a valuable and compelling addition to the emergent canon of writings by British women who travelled to the Ottoman empire.

• List of Illustrations & MapsAcknowledgementsPart I: Critical Introduction: The Eye of a Stranger1. ‘Out of your world’: Liston’s Turkish TravelsPatrick Hart2. Approaching Henrietta Liston: A Biographical SketchDora Petherbridge3. The Diplomatic ContextKenneth Weisbrode4. The Ottoman Social and Political ContextsF. Özden Mercan5. Encountering Liston’s Turkish WritingsValerie Kennedy6. Locating Liston: Women’s Travel Writing and the Ottoman EmpireValerie Kennedy7. The Manuscripts: Composition, Revision, Dating, ReadershipPatrick HartPart II: Liston’s Turkish Writings1. The Turkish Journal, 1812-18142. Selected Further WritingsChronology of the Life and Times of Henrietta ListonBibliographyIndex.

Patrick Hart is Assistant Professor in the Department of English Literature at Bilkent University, Ankara. He is founder and editor of the Journal of the Northern Renaissance. Valerie Kennedy is Assistant Professor in the Department of English Literature at Bilkent University, Ankara. She is author of Edward Said: A Critical Introduction (Polity, 2000). Dora Petherbridge is Curator of North American and Commonwealth Collections at the National Library of Scotland.

Henrietta Liston’s Constantinople Journal captures readers from its opening sentence, as if it were a novel. This meticulously edited, highly readable and thoughtfully modernised edition is a valuable and compelling addition to the emergent canon of writings by British women who travelled to the Ottoman empire.

• List of Illustrations & MapsAcknowledgementsPart I: Critical Introduction: The Eye of a Stranger1. ‘Out of your world’: Liston’s Turkish TravelsPatrick Hart2. Approaching Henrietta Liston: A Biographical SketchDora Petherbridge3. The Diplomatic ContextKenneth Weisbrode4. The Ottoman Social and Political ContextsF. Özden Mercan5. Encountering Liston’s Turkish WritingsValerie Kennedy6. Locating Liston: Women’s Travel Writing and the Ottoman EmpireValerie Kennedy7. The Manuscripts: Composition, Revision, Dating, ReadershipPatrick HartPart II: Liston’s Turkish Writings1. The Turkish Journal, 1812-18142. Selected Further WritingsChronology of the Life and Times of Henrietta ListonBibliographyIndex.

Patrick Hart is Assistant Professor in the Department of English Literature at Bilkent University, Ankara. He is founder and editor of the Journal of the Northern Renaissance. Valerie Kennedy is Assistant Professor in the Department of English Literature at Bilkent University, Ankara. She is author of Edward Said: A Critical Introduction (Polity, 2000). Dora Petherbridge is Curator of North American and Commonwealth Collections at the National Library of Scotland.

Henrietta Liston’s Constantinople Journal captures readers from its opening sentence, as if it were a novel. This meticulously edited, highly readable and thoughtfully modernised edition is a valuable and compelling addition to the emergent canon of writings by British women who travelled to the Ottoman empire.

• List of Illustrations & MapsAcknowledgementsPart I: Critical Introduction: The Eye of a Stranger1. ‘Out of your world’: Liston’s Turkish TravelsPatrick Hart2. Approaching Henrietta Liston: A Biographical SketchDora Petherbridge3. The Diplomatic ContextKenneth Weisbrode4. The Ottoman Social and Political ContextsF. Özden Mercan5. Encountering Liston’s Turkish WritingsValerie Kennedy6. Locating Liston: Women’s Travel Writing and the Ottoman EmpireValerie Kennedy7. The Manuscripts: Composition, Revision, Dating, ReadershipPatrick HartPart II: Liston’s Turkish Writings1. The Turkish Journal, 1812-18142. Selected Further WritingsChronology of the Life and Times of Henrietta ListonBibliographyIndex.