text:  In the course of her enquiries into the condition of women under the Mahometan law the author is led to make some reflections upon one by whom Mahometan manners were first presented in an attractive shape to the English public--a person celebrated for her friends but still more celebrated for her enemies--known for her love but famous for her hate--a girl without feeling a woman without tenderness--a banished wife a careless mother--on whom extraordinary wit masculine sense a clear judgment and an ardent love of letters seem to have been lavished for no other purpose than to show that without a good heart they serve only to make their possessor the most contemptible of mankind