Add to ORKGThis dissertation analyzes the travel writings of Isabella Bird Bishop, Mary Kingsley, Florence Douglas Dixie, and Isabel Savory. While away from England, these women writers participated in cultural exchanges which led to reevaluations of British womanhood. British women travel writers operated not only within the power structures of gender but also within the structures of empire, class, and race. Women travel writers blazed the trail for the New Woman of the end of the century. Before cycling and cigarette smoking were allowed, daring women such as Isabella Bird Bishop and Mary Kingsley crisscrossed the globe in defiance of patriarchal tradition and in search of their own pleasure --- later both hallmarks of the New Woman. Contrary to co...
This article introduces a Special Issue of Women's Writing on the theme of women's travel writing. I...
Between the late seventeenth and the early nineteenth century, the possibilities for travelling with...
The seventeenth century is often called the first truly global era, but worldly adventures did not r...
This dissertation analyzes the travel writings of Isabella Bird Bishop, Mary Kingsley, Florence Doug...
This thesis examines British women travelling on the Continent between 1780 and 1840. It argues that...
The technological progress of the nineteenth century made travelling across the seas and the publish...
Making recourse to Virginia Woolf’s “Professions for Women” (1931), I have studied the manner in whi...
Homecomings argues that women\u27s travel writing must be read as an important source of critiques o...
Chapter in Transatlantic Women: Nineteenth Century American Women Writers in Great Britain, edited b...
South-East Europe has inspired a significant amount of British female travel literature, especially ...
This dissertation argues that seventeenth-century women’s writing provides vital perspectives on ear...
During the last three decades of the nineteenth century, when trans-Atlantic steamships crossings be...
Victorian women are not necessarily known for their extravagant lifestyles outside the home and ward...
This study explores four literary journeys written by American and British authors: Margaret Fuller'...
In this study, I conduct a cultural analysis of a range of neglected English-language books, article...
This article introduces a Special Issue of Women's Writing on the theme of women's travel writing. I...
Between the late seventeenth and the early nineteenth century, the possibilities for travelling with...
The seventeenth century is often called the first truly global era, but worldly adventures did not r...
This dissertation analyzes the travel writings of Isabella Bird Bishop, Mary Kingsley, Florence Doug...
This thesis examines British women travelling on the Continent between 1780 and 1840. It argues that...
The technological progress of the nineteenth century made travelling across the seas and the publish...
Making recourse to Virginia Woolf’s “Professions for Women” (1931), I have studied the manner in whi...
Homecomings argues that women\u27s travel writing must be read as an important source of critiques o...
Chapter in Transatlantic Women: Nineteenth Century American Women Writers in Great Britain, edited b...
South-East Europe has inspired a significant amount of British female travel literature, especially ...
This dissertation argues that seventeenth-century women’s writing provides vital perspectives on ear...
During the last three decades of the nineteenth century, when trans-Atlantic steamships crossings be...
Victorian women are not necessarily known for their extravagant lifestyles outside the home and ward...
This study explores four literary journeys written by American and British authors: Margaret Fuller'...
In this study, I conduct a cultural analysis of a range of neglected English-language books, article...
This article introduces a Special Issue of Women's Writing on the theme of women's travel writing. I...
Between the late seventeenth and the early nineteenth century, the possibilities for travelling with...
The seventeenth century is often called the first truly global era, but worldly adventures did not r...