Item record: Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia

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Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia

Author	Lady Mary (Leonora Woulfe) Sheil
Title of item	Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia
Subtitle of item	With Notes on Russia, Koords, Toorkomans, Nestorians, Khiva, and Persia
Publisher of this ed.	London: John Murray
Date of this edition	1856
Language	English
Permission	public domain
Posted	2001-09-06 by Jonah Winters
Proofread	2010-07-09 by Jonah Winters
Formatted	2004-11-20 by Mary Mark Ockerbloom
Classified in	Books and Pilgrims' notes
URL	bahai-library.com/shiel_glimpses_life_persia
Abstract	Considered first travel book on Persia by a woman. Of particular interest to Bahá'ís are her accounts on Babism (Babeeism) and the Bab.
Notes	For Bahá'i references, see pages 175-81, 272-82. Her views are colored by rumors and misunderstandings of the time, but she believes the Faith will grow. Mirrored with permission from digital.library.upenn.edu/women/sheil/persia/persia.html, proofread and reformatted in 2010.
Tags	Mentions; Persian culture; Travelogues
Locations	Iran (documents)
Page views	116679 hits since 2001-09-06
Edit quality	high: carefully proofread and edited
Format quality	high: well formatted
Last edited	2001-09-06. See previous versions [archive.org]. Documents posted between 2003-2012 had various slightly different URLs and sometimes can be found in archive.org with addresses like bahai-library.com/file.php5?file=shiel_glimpses_life_persia. Documents posted prior to October 2003 were at bahai-library.org [archive.org] and had completely different URLs.

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