Harem

HaremI was born in a konak (old house), which once was the harem of a pasha, writes Alev Lytle Croutier. People around me often whispered things about harems; my own grandmother and her sister had been brought up in one. Drawing on a host of firsthand accounts and memoirs, as well as her own family history, Croutier explores life in the worlds harems, from the Middle Ages to the early twentieth century, focusing on the fabled Seraglio of Topkapi Palace as

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