Safiye Ünüvar
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Safiye Ünüvar was an Ottoman educator and memoir writer.
She was educated at a Teacher's College, and employed as the governess of the Ottoman princesses between 1915 and 1924. She was the first woman teacher with a formal education and a degree to be engaged as a teacher in the Ottoman Imperial Harem.
She published her memoirs in 1964. Her memoirs are a valuable source about the Ottoman Imperial Harem. Alongside Filizten Hanım and Ayşe Sultan (daughter of Abdul Hamid II), she was one of only three women to have described the life of the Ottoman Imperial Harem in her memoirs; she is also the only employee of the Imperial Harem to have written her memoirs.[1]
References
- ^ Brookes, Douglas Scott (2010). The Concubine, the Princess, and the Teacher: Voices from the Ottoman Harem. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-78335-5.