Sophia Poole (1804-91) was the sister of the Arabist Edward William Lane.

Sophia Poole (1804-91) was the sister of the Arabist Edward William Lane, She visited Egypt and wrote a volume in three volumes, about Egyptian women which was meant to be a companion volume to Lane's Manners and Customs of the fresh Egyptians (1836). The Englishwoman in Egypt (1844-46) always regarded as a correct and objective representation of Egyptian women is also a reflection of the writer's hold visualization and inscription of her identity. Poole this article argues, defined herself as one as well as the other an English person and a woman, pair aspects that were hard to reconcile at the time. Poole was faced