Pardoe

Julia Pardoe, an English poet and writer of such Orientalist novels as The City of the Sultan and Romance of the Harem, was permanently transformed in 1836 when she accompanied her father to Istanbul.

G. Roger Denson: The Beauty We Fear: The Great Mosques of European Novelists and Poets (Slideshow) G. Roger Denson 2010

Julia Pardoe, an English poet and writer of such Orientalist novels as The City of the Sultan and Romance of the Harem, was permanently transformed in 1836 when she accompanied her father to Istanbul.

G. Roger Denson: The Beauty We Fear: The Great Mosques of European Novelists and Poets (Slideshow) G. Roger Denson 2010

In fact, upon her entry to the mosque, Pardoe finds only the calm space of contemplation to reflect on the many historic narratives "that throw a halo around the Mosque of Sultan Ahmed and which greatly enhances its actual beauty; and the traveler loiters willingly amid its dim magnificence, calling up visions of the past which stamp an extraneous value upon every detail of the edifice."

G. Roger Denson: The Beauty We Fear: The Great Mosques of European Novelists and Poets (Slideshow) G. Roger Denson 2010

In fact, upon her entry to the mosque, Pardoe finds only the calm space of contemplation to reflect on the many historic narratives "that throw a halo around the Mosque of Sultan Ahmed and which greatly enhances its actual beauty; and the traveler loiters willingly amid its dim magnificence, calling up visions of the past which stamp an extraneous value upon every detail of the edifice."

G. Roger Denson: The Beauty We Fear: The Great Mosques of European Novelists and Poets (Slideshow) G. Roger Denson 2010

In fact, upon her entry to the mosque, Pardoe finds only the calm space of contemplation to reflect on the many historic narratives "that throw a halo around the Mosque of Sultan Ahmed and which greatly enhances its actual beauty; and the traveler loiters willingly amid its dim magnificence, calling up visions of the past which stamp an extraneous value upon every detail of the edifice."

G. Roger Denson: The Beauty We Fear: The Great Mosques of European Novelists and Poets (Slideshow) G. Roger Denson 2010

Julia Pardoe, an English poet and writer of such Orientalist novels as The City of the Sultan and Romance of the Harem, was permanently transformed in 1836 when she accompanied her father to Istanbul.

G. Roger Denson: The Beauty We Fear: The Great Mosques of European Novelists and Poets (Slideshow) G. Roger Denson 2010

In fact, upon her entry to the mosque, Pardoe finds only the calm space of contemplation to reflect on the many historic narratives "that throw a halo around the Mosque of Sultan Ahmed and which greatly enhances its actual beauty; and the traveler loiters willingly amid its dim magnificence, calling up visions of the past which stamp an extraneous value upon every detail of the edifice."

G. Roger Denson: The Beauty We Fear: The Great Mosques of European Novelists and Poets (Slideshow) G. Roger Denson 2010

Julia Pardoe, an English poet and writer of such Orientalist novels as The City of the Sultan and Romance of the Harem, was permanently transformed in 1836 when she accompanied her father to Istanbul.

G. Roger Denson: The Beauty We Fear: The Great Mosques of European Novelists and Poets (Slideshow) G. Roger Denson 2010

In fact, upon her entry to the mosque, Pardoe finds only the calm space of contemplation to reflect on the many historic narratives "that throw a halo around the Mosque of Sultan Ahmed and which greatly enhances its actual beauty; and the traveler loiters willingly amid its dim magnificence, calling up visions of the past which stamp an extraneous value upon every detail of the edifice."

G. Roger Denson: The Beauty We Fear: The Great Mosques of European Novelists and Poets (Slideshow) G. Roger Denson 2010

Julia Pardoe, an English poet and writer of such Orientalist novels as The City of the Sultan and Romance of the Harem, was permanently transformed in 1836 when she accompanied her father to Istanbul.

G. Roger Denson: The Beauty We Fear: The Great Mosques of European Novelists and Poets (Slideshow) G. Roger Denson 2010