Kadriye Hüseyin was a member of the Egyptian ruling family and a prolific intellectual whose works ranged from history books, essays, and poems to translations and travelogues, most of which she produced in Ottoman Turkish. Until very recently, however, Kadriye Hüseyin has been largely a forgotten figure within the scholarship on both the Ottoman Empire and Egypt. While the historians of the late Ottoman Empire did not pay Kadriye Hüseyin too much attention because she was born and raised in Egypt, the scholars working on modern Egypt ignored her works because she wrote in Ottoman Turkish. This paper will bridge this gap between these two trends of scholarship and introduce Kadriye Hüseyin as a clear representation of the Ottoman cultural consciousness that continued to flourish in Egypt in the beginning of the 20th century. Based primarily on books that she published between 1909 and 1915, it will argue that while Kadriye Hüseyin wrote in Ottoman Turkish and was intellectually nurtured by Ottoman literary traditions, such as the genre of “advice literature” and early Ottoman novels, she was also influenced to a great extent by the intellectual currents that were prevalent in Egypt at the time, most important of them being the publishing of biographies of famous women in Islamic history in an attempt to encourage the advancement of the status of women in the early-20th century Egypt. Through analyzing Kadriye Hüseyin’s works, the paper will situate Egypt firmly within the Ottoman context and demonstrate the cultural ties that continued to exist between Istanbul and Cairo, at a time when Egypt was becoming more autonomous within the Ottoman Empire. In so doing, the paper will contribute to the understanding of the history of modern Egypt as well as the late Ottoman Empire.