Ottoman Women from the Pen of Spanish Mademoiselle Esmeralda Cervantes at the World Colombus Exhibition in 1893

dc.contributor.authorKanat, Vedat
dc.contributor.authorÖzçelik Kanat, Şeyda
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-06T17:30:29Z
dc.date.available2025-01-06T17:30:29Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractThe Ottoman Empire, one of the leading actors of the Eastern world, was an empire closely followed by the whole World. In addition to the political moves of the Empire, social and daily life was also wondered and legendary information was produced particularly about Ottoman women. By the modernization process of the Empire in the 19th century, its official and unofficial life was opened to the national and international public, and this opening caused the Ottoman women to be closely observed by the Europe. European travelers, craftsmen or foreign ambassador wives who came to the Ottoman lands frequently penned about Ottomen women. One of these names was Spanish Mademoiselle Esmeralda Cervantes who lived in the Ottoman capital for a while. Writer, journalist and musician Mademoiselle Esmeralda, who was in Istanbul in the years coincided with the Abdulhamid II reign, was elected as a representative by the Madrid Fine Arts Society to participate in the World Colombus Exhibition, one of the international favorite meetings of the 19th century and held in Chicago in 1893. She wrote a report to make a presentation on the education of women in the Ottoman Empire at the Chicago Literature Congress of Women held within this exhibition. In the report, Mademoiselle gave information about Ottoman, Greek, British, German, Armenian and Jewish girls’ schools, which were active in education in the 19th century Istanbul. The aim of the study is to give information about the situation of Islamic/Eastern women and Muslim and non-Muslim girls’ school in Istanbul by adhering to the report of Mademoiselle Esmeralda. © 2023, Hacettepe University. All rights reserved.
dc.identifier.endpage1100
dc.identifier.issn1305-1458
dc.identifier.issue39
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85182659661
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ4
dc.identifier.startpage1077
dc.identifier.trdizinid1259430
dc.identifier.urihttps://search.trdizin.gov.tr/tr/yayin/detay/1259430
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14669/1650
dc.identifier.volume19
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopus
dc.indekslendigikaynakTR-Dizin
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherHacettepe University
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Modern Turkish History
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.snmzKA_20241211
dc.subjectInas (Girls) Schools
dc.subjectIstanbul
dc.subjectMademoiselle Esmeralda Cervantes
dc.subjectOttoman Empire
dc.subjectWorld’s Columbian Exposition
dc.titleOttoman Women from the Pen of Spanish Mademoiselle Esmeralda Cervantes at the World Colombus Exhibition in 1893
dc.title.alternative1893 Dünya Colombus Sergisi’nde İspanyol Matmazel Esmeralda Cervantes’in Kaleminden Osmanlı Kadınları
dc.typeArticle

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