Books by Mary Roberts

Brings to light a body of harem imagery that was created through a dynamic process of cultural exchange. The author focuses on images produced by nineteenth-century European artists and writers who were granted access to harems in the urban centres of Istanbul and Cairo. These Europeans were "intimate outsiders" within the women's quarters.

The writer Mary Roberts developed an interest in natural history while growing up in the Gloucestershire countryside. Each chapter of this charming account of the ecology of a rural hamlet, published in 1831, considers a month of the year, and Roberts' observation of nature is enhanced by her considerable knowledge.

Offers a way of understanding Orientalism by shifting the focus from Europe to Istanbul and examining the cross-cultural artistic networks that emerged in that cosmopolitan capital in the nineteenth century.