author
A. Hume-Griffith
A British missionary writer, she drew on years spent in Persia and Turkish Arabia to show readers parts of everyday life that outsiders rarely saw. Her best-known book blends travel writing, observation, and firsthand encounters with women and families across the region.
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Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia An Account of an Englishwoman's Eight Years' Residence Amongst the Women of the East
by M. E. Hume-Griffith, A. Hume-Griffith
About the author
Born in 1871, Mary Eliza Welchman Hume-Griffith is identified in Wikisource as a British Middle East missionary. She is associated with Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia, a book based on long residence in the region and published in the early 20th century.
That work presents the experiences of an Englishwoman living among women in Persia and Turkish Arabia for eight years. It combines personal travel narrative with descriptions of local customs, domestic life, and the social world around missionary and medical work.
She is often listed alongside A. Hume-Griffith in library and Project Gutenberg records, and the book itself includes an image captioned "The Author and her Husband in Bakhtian Costume," suggesting a collaborative or closely linked authorship in publication history. Even so, the surviving records available here are brief, so many personal details about her life remain unclear.