But freedom is a luxury that a maid can ill-afford, and when Sally grasps more than her status entitles her to, she is brutally reminded that she is mistress of nothing. When Lady Duff Gordon undoes her stays and takes to native dress, throwing herself into weekly salons language lessons excursions to the tombs Sally too adapts to a new world, affording her heady and heartfelt freedoms never known before. It is Sally who describes, with a mixture of wonder and trepidation, the odd menage marshalled by the resourceful Omar, which travels down the Nile to a new life in Luxor. But when her debilitating tuberculosis means exile, she and her devoted lady's maid, Sally, set sail for Egypt. Lady Duff Gordon is the toast of Victorian London.
When Lady Duff Gordon undoes her stays and takes to native dress, throwing herself into weekly salons language lessons excursions to the tombs Sally too adapts to a new world, affording her. She then spent a year wor Kate Pullinger is an award-winning writer of novels, short stories and digital works. It is Sally who describes, with a mixture of wonder and trepidation, the odd menage marshalled by the resourceful Omar, which travels down the Nile to a new life in Luxor. Born in Cranbrook, British Columbia, Kate dropped out of McGill University after a year and a half of not studying philosophy and literature.
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