GRACE ELLISON: TÜRK HAREMİNDE BİR İNGİLİZ KADINI

Year 2016, Volume: 16 Issue: 33, 93 - 104, 13.01.2017

Füsun Çoban Döşkaya

Abstract

Yaşadığı dönemin önde gelen ve başarılı yazarı olan Grace Ellison günümüzde

ekseriyetle Batılı okurlar tarafından bilinmemekte ve Türk okurunca tanınmamakta, hayatının

detayları hakkında çok az şey bilinmektedir. Bu makalede öne sürülen görüş İngiliz gazeteci/

yazar Grace Ellison’nun ve Fransız gazeteci Madame Léra’nın (Marc Helys adı altında yazan

Marie Léra) aynı kişiler olduğu veya olabileceğidir. Buna ek olarak bu çalışmada, Grace

Ellison ve onun ihmal edilmiş tarihi belgelerinden biri olan “Türk Hareminde Bir İngiliz

Kadını” isimli eseri incelenerek, Ellison’nun da bir parçası olduğu edebi sahtecilik üzerinde

durulmaktadır.

Keywords

Grace Ellison, Madame Léra, Pierre Loti, Türk Hareminde bir İngiliz Kadını, Zeynep Hanım, Melek Hanım, Harem Edebiyatı

GRACE ELLISON: AN ENGLISHWOMAN IN A TURKISH HAREM

Abstract

Though to varying degrees prominent and successful in her day, today, Grace Ellison,

is largely unknown to Western readers and she is not too familiar to readers in Turkey and

little is known about the details of her life. The idea/possibility of English journalist/writer

Grace Ellison’s being French journalist Madame Léra (Marie Léra, who wrote under the name

of Marc Hélys) is the main argument of this article. In addition to this, this study concentrates

on Grace Ellison and one of her neglected historical records called, “An Englishwoman in a

Turkish Harem (1915)” to explore the literary forgery in which she is involved.

Keywords

Grace Ellison, Madame Léra, Pierre Loti, An Englishwoman in a Turkish Harem, Zeynep Hanoum, Melek Hanoum, Harem Literature

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