Maud and her friends visit the Turkish bath: 1
Down the stairs

 

‘Expected a Turkish pasha

to leap out at any moment

and entice us into his harem…’

 

 

 

 

‘Felt very strange and defenceless wrapped in towels'
  Betowelled

 

 

These delightful illustrations, and the diary entry for 30 March 1892 which describes her adventure, are particularly important as there are very few accounts of visits to Victorian Turkish baths by women writers.

< Maud: the diaries of Maud Berkeley / Adapted by Flora Fraser. — London : Secker & Warburg, 1985. — p.125

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Women and the Victorian Turkish bath. Part 6: attitudes to privacy, nudity, and  exercise

                           

Victorian Turkish Baths:
their origin, development,
and gradual decline

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