Title: Seraglio
First published: 2003
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
Places: Turkey
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)
Time periods: Mahmud II, 1808-1839, Selim III, 1789-1808, Abdul Hamid I, 1774-1789