In 1878 she published a story called Unequally Yoked, illustrating the miserable lives of English women who have been persuaded to marry Mohammedans, and in 1872 she wrote A Glimpse Behind the Curtain, a story of life in the harems of Cairo.

At his death, it is said, a paper was found in which he had foredoomed his most trusted servants, and he slew all the inmates of his harem in order to hinder them from falling into his enemies' hands.

Yet he was not insensible to martial fame; and he accordingly showed no indisposition to forsake his harem for the field.

Filling their coffers with spoil, they stocked their harems with the wives and daughters of their enemies.

All that Muley Errahman has to do with the East, appears to be to procure eunuchs and Abyssinian concubines for his harem from Egypt, and send forward his most faithful, or most rebellious subjects on their pilgrimage to Mecca.

The favourite wife summoned all the harem to a feast, whilst a copious allowance of intoxicating liquor was served out to the minor portion of the garrison.

Old Scharnhoff used to keep a regular harem under the Turks.

I was never more vividly reminded of the fact that human nature, from one pole to the other, falls naturally into certain categories, and that Respectability wears the same face in an Oriental harem as in England or America.

I was struck by the fact that among them all there was not a child; it was the first harem without babies that I had seen in that prolific land.

I was ordered, with others, to wait below the tower of the royal harem at midnight and bear away a corpse.

Certainly, if any one of them had been such prior to the building of the ark, he was not permitted to bring his harem into it for protection from the fearful storm.

There the land was cultivated, and the musical note of a cock turkey that hailed my coming from afar, as he swaggered in front of his harem on the march, led me to a spot where a man was mowing, and he told me where I should find the Tarn, which he, like all other people in the country, pronounced Tar. Evening was coming on when I had crossed this plateau, and I saw far below me the village of Marsal on the banks of the shining Tarn.

I must confess, however, that I have seen many handsomer women in the Persian harems than in the Turkish, even when they contained Circassians.