House With Wisteria: Memoirs of Halide Edib

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Summary: A candid, powerful, and uniquely revealing account
Review: House With Wisteria: Memoirs Of Halide Edib is the personal memoir and testimony of a woman's life during the last years of the Ottoman Empire. She grew up having to deal with the difficulties of living in polygamous households (parental and marital), and strived to spread public education and institute schools in Istanbul and in the Arab provinces during the conflict-ridden days of World War I. A candid, powerful, and uniquely revealing account, as open and meaningful today as it was in the era of its initial publication, House With Wisteria is very highly recommended for both Women's Studies supplemental reading lists and community library Historical Biography collections.