Haremlik : Some Pages from the Life of Turkish Women

Demetra Vaka, later Mrs. Brown (1877-1946), was a Greek Ottoman who emigrated to the United States and married Kenneth Brown. She worked as a journalist and was a popular author, writing at the beginning of the twentieth-century as Demetra Brown and Mrs. Kenneth Brown. Her works include: The First Secretary (with Kenneth Brown) (1907), Haremlik: Some Pages from the Life of Turkish Women (1909), A Duke's Price (1910), In the Shadow of Islam (1911), A Child of the Orient (1914), The Grasp of the Sultan (1916), The Heart of the Balkans (1917), In the Heart of German Intrigue (1918), In Pawn to a Throne (with Kenneth Brown) (1919), Modern Greek Stories (with Aristides Phoutrides) (1920), The Unveiled Ladies of Stamboul (1923), For a Heart for Any Fate: The Early Years of Demetra Vaka (Mrs. Kenneth Brown) (1947) and Bribed to be Born (1951).