"Lucie, Lady Duff Gordon was a well-known figure in Victorian London when tuberculosis forced her to move to a hot climate. She travelled to Egypt, accompanied only by her Lady's Maid, Sally Naldrett and left her husband and children in London, not knowing if she would ever see them again. The women moved from Alexandria, to Cairo and finally, in search of a hot, dry and unpolluted climate, to Luxor where they were the only Europeans"