If I had been a man, my love for fame would have been unbounded. — Lady Hester Stanhope (image via New York Public Library Digital Collection) They call her "Florence of Arabia," but Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope traveled the Middle East almost a century before her more-famous male counterpart.
A Woman to Know: Lady Hester Stanhope
A Woman to Know: Lady Hester Stanhope
A Woman to Know: Lady Hester Stanhope
If I had been a man, my love for fame would have been unbounded. — Lady Hester Stanhope (image via New York Public Library Digital Collection) They call her "Florence of Arabia," but Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope traveled the Middle East almost a century before her more-famous male counterpart.