{"id":1204,"date":"2012-03-20T18:39:37","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T18:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1204"},"modified":"2015-04-08T17:00:37","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T17:00:37","slug":"the-mistress-of-nothing-by-kate-pullinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1204","title":{"rendered":"The Mistress of Nothing by Kate Pullinger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1219\" title=\"The mistress of nothing\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/The-mistress-of-nothing2-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"117\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/The-mistress-of-nothing2-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/The-mistress-of-nothing2.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 117px) 100vw, 117px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When Lady Duff Gordon, stricken with tuberculosis, leaves her\u00a0home and family for the hot, dry climate of\u00a0Egypt, her lady&#8217;s maid, Sally, accompanies her.\u00a0\u00a0Much to Sally&#8217;s delight, Egypt offers her freedoms she would never have known in London.\u00a0\u00a0She wears native clothing, learns Arabic, and falls in love with their Egyptian\u00a0interpreter, Omar.\u00a0 However, her new freedoms may prove her undoing.\u00a0 A riveting plot with fascinating characters based on real-life events,\u00a0Sally&#8217;s story examines power, race and class distinctions during Queen Victoria&#8217;s era.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Lady Duff Gordon, stricken with tuberculosis, leaves her\u00a0home and family for the hot, dry climate of\u00a0Egypt, her lady&#8217;s maid, Sally, accompanies her.\u00a0\u00a0Much to Sally&#8217;s delight, Egypt offers her freedoms she would never have known in London.\u00a0\u00a0She wears native clothing, learns Arabic, and falls in love with their Egyptian\u00a0interpreter, Omar.\u00a0 However, her new freedoms may &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1204\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Mistress of Nothing by Kate Pullinger<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,8,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-barbara-h"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}