Lady M found a lot to admire in the lives of elite Ottoman women and the kinds of freedoms they could enjoy that were denied her in England. She's great to read, although I'm not a fan of the racist letters when she's going through Africa on her way back.
It's in Gender and Space in British Literature, Ed. Mona Narain and Karen Gevirtz (Ashgate 2014). My article is called Going Native: Geography, Gender and Identity in LMWM's Turkish Embassy Letters.pic.twitter.com/kFhFTcgIQr