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	Lady Hester Stanhope - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lady Hester was born, and grew up at, her father's seat of Chevening until early in 1800, when he sent her to live with her grandmother at Burton Pynsent.
		Stanhope refused to wear a veil and dressed as a Turkish male - robe, turban and slippers.
		She claimed to have heard omens from various sources, from fortune-tellers to prophets, that her destiny was to become the bride of a new Messiah.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hester_Stanhope (1193 words)

	Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1794 Stanhope supported Muir, one of the Edinburgh politicians who were transported to Botany Bay; and in 1795 he introduced into the Lords a motion deprecating any interference with the internal affairs of France.
		His youngest daughter, Lady Lucy Rachael Stanhope, eloped with Thomas Taylor of Sevenoaks, the family apothecary, and her father refused to be reconciled to her; but Pitt made Taylor controller-general of the customs, and his son was one of Lord Chatham's executors.
		Lord Stanhope died at the family seat of Chevening, and was succeeded as 4th Earl by his son Philip Henry (1781–1855), who inherited many of his scientific tastes, but is best known, perhaps for his association with Kaspar Hauser.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_Stanhope,_3rd_Earl_Stanhope (729 words)

	Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope - LoveToKnow 1911
		Although her brightness of style cheered the declining days of Pitt and amused most of his political friends, her satirical remarks sometimes created enemies when more consideration for the feelings of her associates would have converted them into friends.
		Lady Hester Stanhope possessed great business talents, and when Pitt was out of office she acted as his private secretary.
		On Pitt's death she lived in Montagu Square, London, but life in London without the interest caused by associating with the principal politicians of the Tory party proved irksome to her, and she sought relief from lassitude in the fastnesses of Wales.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Lady_Hester_Lucy_Stanhope (590 words)

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		She was known as the Queen of the East, cast as both tyrant and heroine, an English adventurer lured by the Orient who ultimately died an eccentric recluse in the remote hills of Lebanon.
		Lady Hester Stanhope was a legend in her own lifetime, a 19th century femme fatale whose name conjured images of intrigue, decadence and romance.
		Stanhope was born on March 12, 1776 in the southern English county of Kent.
	tayyar.org /files/actualite/0406/040630Reuters_lady_hester_stanhope.htm (812 words)

	Books \| I only want his body
		Lady Hester Stanhope kept a horse in her stable in preparation for the Messiah, and from her vast Lebanese fortress she would scan the mountain tops for his approach.
		From Hester Stanhope's trust in prophecy, Woolf proclaimed, all those involved in the business of "passing judgment on the books of the moment" should learn to "scan the horizon; see the past in relation to the future; and so prepare the way for masterpieces to come".
		Stanhope's debts were to gradually spin out of control and, while she exercised power in her region, she lived the last years of her life in Garbo-like seclusion and abject poverty.
	books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5192052-99942,00.html (495 words)

	Lady impostor leads the chosen few - theage.com.au (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Hester Lucy Stanhope was born in Kent in 1776, and born to rule.
		Hester was unable to express her imperious nature until 1803, when she became secretary and personal assistant to her uncle.
		Lady Stanhope was left with a royal pension, but deprived of the stimulation of public life and the station she felt was her right.
	theage.com.au /articles/2002/11/24/1037697982884.html (678 words)

	Lady Hester Stanhope
		She was born in 1776, the eldest daughter of that extraordinary Earl Stanhope, Jacobin and inventor, who made the first steamboat and the first calculating machine, who defended the French Revolution in the House of Lords and erased the armorial bearings—" damned aristocratical non-sense "—from his carriages and his plate.
		The second Lady Stanhope, a frigid woman of fashion, left her stepdaughters to the care of futile governesses, while " Citizen Stanhope " ruled the household from his laboratory with the violence of a tyrant.
		The precise nature of Lady Hester's empire was, indeed, dubious; she was in fact merely the tenant of her Djoun establishment, for which she paid a rent of £20 a year.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles28/characters-13.shtml (2737 words)

	Traveling to Jerusalem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Born an aristocrat, raised with wealth, and political connections, Lady Hester Stanhope used her background and upbringing to enter the Middle East, to charm, to be named the Queen of the Desert, and Protectress of the Unfortunate.
		Lady Hester's Uncle, William Pitt was the youngest man to be elected as Prime Minister in England.
		Lady Hester, after years of traveling, settled in Syria, were her generosity kept her the center of attention.
	chass.colostate-pueblo.edu /history/seminar/stanhope.htm (483 words)

	Observer \| That was no lady
		Hester Stanhope (1776-1839) was Prime Minister Pitt's niece and companion, but after his death in 1806 was pressed by a reduced income and intrusive gossip.
		European travellers tittered about her monologic excess and quixotic costume, but Stanhope never sought to appear lovable and the great virtue of Lorna Gibb's spirited new biography is that she refuses to tidy her subject.
		'Lady Hester Stanhope is a figure who provokes,' she declares and, although she too rarely analyses the nature of that provocation, a picture emerges of a woman who, if only implicitly, condemned the religious, sexual and cultural assumptions of the Western governing class in which she was raised.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5188597-102280,00.html (646 words)

	AllRefer.com - Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, 3d Earl (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, 3d Earl[stan´up] Pronunciation Key, 1753–1816, British politician and inventor; grandson of the 1st earl.
		Stanhope became estranged from Pitt after the outbreak of the French Revolution, opposing the British government's repressive policies at home and its policy of intervention abroad.
		A vigorous supporter of the French republican ideal, he became known as "Citizen" Stanhope and absented himself from the House of Lords (1795–1800).
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/StnhpC.html (277 words)

	Adventures in CyberSound: Stanhope, Charles
		Although Stanhope's brainchild doesn't sound like much it was a start (and there was more to it than we've covered here), but Stanhope wouldn't publish any details and instructed his friends not to say anything about what he was doing.
		The stereotype improvements of Lord Stanhope, which we have already described, and the printing-press invented by that nobleman, which bears his name, offered the first great practical improvements in the art of printing, with the exception of Blaew's press that had been called into operation during a period of 350 years.
		Both at the Stanhope press and at the wooden press the same general rate of work was maintained, namely, 250 impressions on one side of a sheet per hour, to be produced by the joint labours of two men, one inking the types, the other laying on the sheet and giving the pressure.
	www.acmi.net.au /AIC/STANHOPE_BIO.html (2099 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Stanhope, Lady Hester Lucy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		STANHOPE, LADY HESTER LUCY [Stanhope, Lady Hester Lucy] 1776-1839, English traveler.
		Leaving England in 1810, she traveled in the Levant, adopting Eastern male dress and a religion that was a composite of Christianity and Islam.
		Her personal physician, C. Meryon, recorded her life in Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope (3 vol., 1845) and in Travels of Lady Hester Stanhope (3 vol., 1846).
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/s/stnhph1.asp (204 words)

	Eothen - CHAPTER VIII
		He made it appear that Lady Hester was the sole cause of hostility betwixt his tribe and the impending enemy, and that his sacred duty of protecting the Englishwoman whom he had admitted as his guest was the only obstacle which prevented an amicable arrangement of the dispute.
		It was after this that Lady Hester passed by the spot, and she described with animated gesture the force and energy with which the divining twig had suddenly leaped in her hands.
		I am told that Lady Hester was in her youth a capital mimic, and she showed me that not all the queenly dulness to which she had condemned herself, not all her fasting and solitude, had destroyed this terrible power.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/hst/travel/Eothen/chap8.html (5138 words)

	No. 1248: Charles and Hester Stanhope
		Hester had all her family's brilliance, but she put it to shaping a place within the rarified atmosphere of the 18th-century rich.
		In the exotic fortress of her powerful personality, Hester Stanhope had clung to the last outpost of imperial excess.
		And this website gives photos, both of the region in Lebanon where Hester Stanhope lived, and of the ruins of her citidel/house.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi1248.htm (585 words)

	Damska jezdecka spolecnost
		Hester Stanhope´s father was an earl who felt bad about his rank and wealth, was sued by his son for neglecting the family estates and responded by starving himself to death.
		The earl, who styled himself "Citizen Stanhope", was one of those people who busy themselves with the cares of the world at the expense of their families.
		Maryon, returning after a long absence, described a still livery but emaciated old lady, living in the ruins of her former splendour with pince-nez perched on her nose; Lamartine, a little later, was overwhelmed by the glamour of her white silk robes and the scented, fountain-filled gardens into which she led him after supper.
	www.ds.pamatky.net /article.php?id=72F039F1-65C5-4AB4-9ED1-23D3402B1109 (999 words)

	Stanhope, Iowa - History
		Stanhope was the last town in the county to be platted.
		The first graduates of Stanhope High School were honored at commencement on June 18, 1903 in the Methodist Church.
		In 1958 a school reorganization was completed that combined the schools of Ellsworth, Randall, Stanhope with Jewell into the South Hamilton Community School District.
	showcase.netins.net /web/marjned/stan.html (827 words)

	Conrad
		Having kept house for her uncle William Pitt, and been his confidante, Hester Stanhope retired to Wales, but disenchanted with the restrictions placed on her in Britain, she left for the Levant in 1810, and never returned.
		The younger Loustenau closely resembled Lady Hester's earlier love and one chance of happiness, General Sir John Moore, and had astrological stars that were favourable to her own.
		Inconsolable, Lady Hester buried him in her own garden, and when she moved to Djoun, his bones were transferred as well.
	www.rldavids.force9.co.uk /stanhope.htm (436 words)

	Eothen - APPENDIX
		T was late when we came in sight of two high conical hills, on one of which stands the village of Djouni, on the other a circular wall, over which dark trees were waving; and this was the place in which Lady Hester Stanhope had finished her strange and eventful career.
		Here many a broken arbour and trellis, bending under masses of jasmine and honeysuckle, show the care and taste that were once lavished on this wild but beautiful hermitage: a garden- house, surrounded by an enclosure of roses run wild, lies in the midst of a grove of myrtle and bay trees.
		The Pasha of Sidon presented Lady Hester with the deserted convent of Mar Elias on her arrival in his country, and this she soon converted into a fortress, garrisoned by a band of Albanians: her only attendants besides were her doctor, her secretary, and some female slaves.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/hst/travel/Eothen/chap30.html (916 words)

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		Lady Hester Stanhope journeyed to the Ottoman Empire in 1810 and never returned to England; she thus became the subject of many Travel and Biographical texts.
		National identity: Stanhope "turns Turk" and renounces her English citizenship, blurring the line between imperious "English aristocrat" and "Despotic Turk".
		It is hoped that this paper will thus provide its audience with an introduction to the fascinating Lady Hester Stanhope, and to raise important questions about the status of evidence, and the dialectical relationship that may obtain between labels and people.
	www.english.upenn.edu /Conferences/Travel99/Abstract/turhan.html (428 words)

	Lady Hester Stanhope
		In May 2005 the biography of Lady Hester Stanhope, entitled Lady Hester, by Lorna Gibb, will be published by Faber.
		Lady Hester was a fascinating woman, The niece of Pitt the Younger, she spent many years in the Middle East.
		She challenged the preconceptions that her society had of women at the time, dressing as a man, taking much younger lovers and becoming embroiled in Lebanese politics.
	www.lornagibb.com (88 words)

	Places in Lebanon - Joun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Seven and a half miles northeast of Sidon and north of the Awali River lies the earthquake-ruined village of Joun, on a fertile, olive-tree-covered hilltop amid sterile white chalk hills.
		About 20 or 25 minutes' walk down a ravine and up onto another hilltop to the northwest of Joun brings the traveller to the lonely, pathetic remains of Lady Hester Stanhope's once-great baronial establishment, where William Pitt's niece held court as the "Sitt", or Lady of Joun, during the early decades of the 19th Century.
		Several of the biographies of Lady Hester give the floor plan of this manor and a distant view of it as seen from the southwest, and these show us the extent of the buildings, whose upkeep eventually ruined the Sitt financially and left her hopelessly in debt to the Syrian money-lenders.
	almashriq.hiof.no /lebanon/900/910/919/joun (207 words)

	Books - Lady Hester Stanhope
		Lady Hester was born, and grew up at, her fathers seat of Chevening in Kent until early in 1800, when he sent her to live with her grandmother at Burton Pynsent.
		A year or two later she travelled abroad, but her cravings were not satisfied until she became the chief of the household of her uncle, William Pitt the Younger, in August 1803.
		She unsuccessfully complained to Queen Victoria I of United Kingdom.
	mywebpage.netscape.com /AAVSO710/lady-hester-stanhope-books.html (1140 words)

	Joun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Joun, in the hills 12 km north of Sidon, is the site of Lady Hester Stanhope's ruined house.
		Lady Hester, the daughter of the Earl of Stanhope, left England in 1810 to seek adventure in the East.
		Although her stone house and stables are in ruin and the gardens are overrun by weeds and wilds flowers, this once-great baronial establishment retains a romantic aspect, especially in spring.
	www.middleeast.com /joun.htm (125 words)

	Literature of Travel and Exploration -- S Entries
		Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope, As Related by Herself in Conversation with her Physician, with Charles Lewis Meryon, 3 vols, 1845
		Travels of the Lady Hester Stanhope as Related by Herself in Conversation with her Physician, with Charles Lewis Meryan, 3 vols, 1846
		The Life and Letters of Lady Hester Stanhope, by her Niece, the Duchess of Cleveland, by Catherine Lucy Wilhelmina Powlett, Duchess of Cleveland, 1897
	www.routledge-ny.com /ref/travellit/azentriess5.html (4360 words)

	AllRefer.com - Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope (Middle Eastern History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
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