Home  

Random  

Nearby  



Log in  



Settings  



Donate  



About Wikipedia  

Disclaimers  



Wikipedia





Talk:Elizabeth Anne Finn





Article  

Talk  



Language  

Watch  

Edit  


Latest comment: 16 years ago by Jonathan Werran in topic 



Learn more about this page

edit

Well, I think the article is shaping up nicely, however, there is still plenty room for improvement...E.g. according to the Blumberg (1980) book, she never was fluent in Arabic. Where does the Dragoman story come from? Also, the article should be expanded w.r.t the farms she had in Palestine, see Artas (village), Motza. Regards, Huldra (talk) 06:41, 2 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

Hiya Huldra, lovely to hear from you. My sources for her mastery of Arabic are her Reminiscences where on page 99 she relates speaking in Arabic for translation into Turkish for the wife of the Ottoman Pasha. During the course of 1874/5 she is commissioned to translate for the Patriarch of Syria on his official visit to England and seven years later in 1882 the correspondnce written to General Gordon of Khartoume by the Mahdi from an upper Sudan dialect. Take point about Abraham's Vineyard - there's a lot that should and will be added! Take care and speak soon, Jonathan Werran (talk) 15:07, 2 May 2008 (UTC)Jonathan WerranReply


Add topic

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Elizabeth_Anne_Finn&oldid=1206300118"
 



Last edited on 11 February 2024, at 19:41  


Languages

 



This page is not available in other languages.
 

Wikipedia


This page was last edited on 11 February 2024, at 19:41 (UTC).

Content is available under CC BY-SA 4.0 unless otherwise noted.



Privacy policy

About Wikipedia

Disclaimers

Contact Wikipedia

Code of Conduct

Developers

Statistics

Cookie statement

Terms of Use

Desktop