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Publisher's Note: To what extent did white European women contribute to the imperial cultures of the second half of the nineteenth century? In contrast to most cultural histories of imperialism which analyze Orientalist images of women rather than images by women, Gendering Orientalism focuses on how women themselves contributed. Drawing on the little-known work of Henriette Browne and other 'lost' women Orientalist artists and the literary works of George Eliot, Lewis challenges masculinist assumptions relating to the stability and homogeneity of the Orientalist gaze. In order to draw out how the meanings attributed to their words and images, as well as t the writers and artists themselves, were specifically gendered, classed and racialized, the author examines women's visual and literary Orientalism through their contemporary reception in the press.