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I've come across Western men's (sometimes fantastical and obviously 2nd or 3rd hand) accounts of women in the Ottoman Empire and the harem system. Do we have any examples of Western women's accounts of Ottoman women? Or of elite Ottoman women's accounts of Westerners?

by /u/screwyoushadowban in /r/AskHistorians

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