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  • And you can get in Alexander and Roxalana from the Bore pasture, in case the buggy should be wanted – and one or two of the old hacks that are spelling out there.

    Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land 1915

  • A popular 1791 print was this of Fanny in the role of Roxalana, in The Sultan, by Isaac Bickerstaffe.

    Guest Post on Fanny Abington by Jo Manning Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2010

  • A popular 1791 print was this of Fanny in the role of Roxalana, in The Sultan, by Isaac Bickerstaffe.

    Archive 2010-04-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2010

  • Outside, in a pleasant garden, are the tombs of Suleiman and his Russian-born wife, Roxalana known to the Turks as “Khourrem,” the Cheerful One.

    Archive 2006-12-01 Walter Jon Williams 2006

  • Suleiman broke with hundreds of years of tradition to marry Roxalana in a formal ceremony, in which she became a wife, not a concubine.

    Archive 2006-12-01 Walter Jon Williams 2006

  • Suleiman broke with hundreds of years of tradition to marry Roxalana in a formal ceremony, in which she became a wife, not a concubine.

    Log of the Eclipse (14) Walter Jon Williams 2006

  • Outside, in a pleasant garden, are the tombs of Suleiman and his Russian-born wife, Roxalana known to the Turks as “Khourrem,” the Cheerful One.

    Log of the Eclipse (14) Walter Jon Williams 2006

  • He wanted a Roxalana of familiar gaiety, without any respect for the dignity of the sovereign.

    Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

  • The leading lady on this last occasion was Miss Cooper, who spoke the epilogue in the character of Roxalana, Henry Austen playing the title-rôle.

    Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh

  • At her dictation had Soliman caused to be murdered his son Mustafa, a youth of the brightest promise, because, in his intelligence and his winning ways he threatened to eclipse Selim, the son of Roxalana herself.

    Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean E. Hamilton Currey

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