Seraglio

Description:

Based on the true story of Empress Josephine's cousin, "Seraglio" is a novel of a girl, kidnapped at age 13, who rose through the ranks of the Turkish Sultan's harem to become the most powerful woman in the Ottoman Empire.

subjects: Fiction,  History,  Harems,  Women,  West Indians,  Kidnapping victims,  Large type books,  New York Times reviewed,  Fiction, historical, general,  Turkey, fiction

People: Mahmut II Sultan of the Turks (1784-1839),  Aimée Dubuc de Rivery (1776-1817),  Selim III Sultan of the Turks (1761-1808),  Mahmud II Sultan of the Turks (1784-1839)

Places: Turkey

Times: Mahmud II, 1808-1839,  Selim III, 1789-1808,  Abdul Hamid I, 1774-1789