Note 129 — Chapter VI · HOME LIFE OF THE OSMANLIS IN ANATOLIA
Reading edition
Diary of a Turk, p. 64 (London, 1903).
Writing to the poet, Pope, Lady Montague declares: “I can assure you that the Princesses and great ladies pass their time at their looms embroidering veils and robes, surrounded by their maids, which are always very numerous, in the same manner as we find Andromache and Helen described.” Op. cit., Vol. I, p. 110.