ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on those female autobiographers in the nineteenth century who stayed for shorter or longer periods in Constantinople and published their experiences. Many women from German-speaking countries traveled to other parts of Europe or countries that were even further afield. The majority of the autobiographers arrived between 1881 and 1891. Women autobiographers did not come again to Constantinople until after 1912. The wives did not go to Constantinople for pleasure; they also stayed the longest. Since 1860, travelers to Constantinople were able to draw on the guidebooks by Moritz Busch and Georg Dempwolff and high-circulation family magazines such as Die Gartenlaube provided informative and entertaining articles on the Orient. Writers who were in the Orient gave an account of their memories not only in their life writings, but also in literary writings, as in the instances of Kriesche, Schulze-Smidt, Bohlau and von Hobe.
