Footsteps of a Victorian Woman in the Ottoman Middle East: Edith Sykes’ Travel Notes

Edith Violet Sykes (1872-1930) is an undiscovered character in the historiography of travel literature. She wife a British agent and diplomat Sir Mark Sykes, who was renowned for his deeds Middle East Sykes-Picot Agreement. actively engaged politics, establishing Chaldean Relief Committee Armenian Assyrian populations, criticizing violence Ireland. Her notes 1906 Ottoman shed light on her Orientalist mindset, construction vis-à-vis West, how Victorian-born woman approaches this land its people. In that sense, purpose article multifarious: First all, study will be initial presentation unpublished Sykes. Secondly, different assets such as rivalry among tribes, people’s living, political disturbances discerned through whose narration provides assistance transition events into discourse.