Lady Hester Stanhope’s description of the Maltese from her memoirs during her travels to Malta (c.1810)

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  1. Okay hester is giving hella gay vibes maybe it’s just me. She really said the filthy men and the gorgeous, small, well adorned women with beautiful hands and feet lmao

  2. The sober part probably is lost since paceville was born. Though I suspect the british can easily describe every nation as sober.

    So who is Lady Hester? She seems to be a good writer. One off memoirs or she was a publish author?

  3. Thanks for sharing!

    I saw a book at Agenda that collects these writings about Malta.

    They’re from people who went on a Grand Tour, basically the fancy version of Euro Trip that the rich used to do back then.

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