Lesley Blanch, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Lesley Blanch

British writer and historian

Date of Birth: 06-Jun-1904

Place of Birth: London

Date of Death: 06-May-2007

Profession: writer, biographer, journalist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Lesley Blanch, MBE, FRSL (6 June 1904, London – 7 May 2007, Garavan near Menton, France) was a British author, historian and traveller.
She is best known for The Wilder Shores of Love, about Isabel Burton (who married the Arabist and explorer Richard), Jane Digby el-Mezrab (Lady Ellenborough, the society beauty who ended up living in the Syrian desert with a Bedouin chieftain), Aimée du Buc de Rivéry (a French convent girl captured by pirates and sent to the Sultan's harem in Istanbul), and Isabelle Eberhardt (a Swiss linguist who felt most comfortable in boy's clothes and lived among the Arabs in the Sahara).