Title: Aviary gate
Description: Elizabeth Stavely sits in the Bodleian library with trembling hands. Before her is a fragment of parchment which has about it a dusty fragrance of roses, of sadness and great age. Here is the clue she has been looking for, to a story that has been untold for four hundred years.
Subjects: Harems, Social life and customs, Court and courtiers, Courts and courtiers, Manners and customs, British, Fiction, Historical, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Istanbul (turkey), fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, general
Places: Turkey, Istanbul (Turkey), Istanbul
Time periods: 16th century