An anthology of women's travel writings

By: Shirley Foster (Editor), Sara Mills (Editor)

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Paperback | 19 September 2002

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This anthology aims to challenge stereotypes of women travellers by presenting writings by women who travelled bravely around the world disregarding social convention and danger. As well as the "eccentric" woman traveller, the anthology includes writings by those who might be seen as failed travellers, cautious and conventional travellers and those who did not conform to the adventure-hero stereotype. It highlights the textual problems faced by women travel writers for example in the depiction of other women, in relation to the adventure hero narrative and character and in the author's representation of knowledge. Famous, infamous and unknown writers also challenge preconceptions about what "makes" a traveller.

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Acknowledgements	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Women writing about women	p. 13
Introduction	p. 14
Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832)	p. 24
Turkish Embassy Letters (1718)	p. 28
Narrative of a Journey Overland to India (1830)	p. 33
Eastern Life, Present and Past (1848)	p. 35
Constantinople During the Crimean War (1863)	p. 46
The Governess in Egypt (1865)	p. 55
Letters from Egypt (1875)	p. 60
Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832)	p. 64
Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada (1838)	p. 65
Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation (1863)	p. 73
My Life in Sarawak (1913)	p. 80
Women and knowledge	p. 87
Introduction	p. 88
First Impressions on a Tour Upon the Continent in the Summer of 1818 (1819)	p. 98
Journal (1835)	p. 101
Records of a Girlhood (1878)	p. 102
Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada (1838)	p. 105
Notes and Sketches of New South Wales (1844)	p. 107
Rambles in Germany and Italy (1844)	p. 108
The Backwoods of Canada (1846)	p. 110
Impressions of Rome, Florence and Turin (1862)	p. 113
Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada (1838)	p. 118
Some Further Recollections of a Happy Life (1892)	p. 124
Narrative of a Journey Overland to India (1830)	p. 126
Letters from the United States, Cuba and Canada (1856)	p. 131
A Thousand Miles up the Nile (1888)	p. 134
Some Further Recollections of a Happy Life (1892)	p. 140
Notes and Sketches of New South Wales (1844)	p. 144
Roughing it in the Bush (1852)	p. 148
Letters from the United States, Cuba and Canada (1856)	p. 149
Paris and the Parisians (1836)	p. 154
The Englishwoman in Russia (1855)	p. 157
Station Life in New Zealand (1870)	p. 159
An Australian Parsonage (1872)	p. 163
Impressions of a Tenderfoot (1890)	p. 167
Women and space	p. 171
Introduction	p. 172
The Illustrated Journeys of Celia Fiennes (1698)	p. 180
A Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark (1796)	p. 187
Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt and Italy (1852)	p. 190
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains (1879)	p. 193
Travels in West Africa (1897)	p. 199
The Passionate Nomad (1902)	p. 210
North-West by North (1935)	p. 215
Baghdad Sketches (1937)	p. 222
The Gobi Desert (1942)	p. 228
Full Tilt (1965)	p. 234
Tracks (1982)	p. 243
Adventure and gender	p. 251
Introduction	p. 252
Narrative of Two Voyages to the River Sierra Leone (1791)	p. 260
Peregrinations of a Pariah (1833-4)	p. 268
"The Donner Party Letters" (1846)	p. 277
Unprotected Females in Norway (1857)	p. 284
With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple (1901)	p. 288
My Life in Sarawak (1913)	p. 292
My Journey to Lhasa (1927)	p. 295
"Through a barren land" (1996)	p. 303
Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica (1997)	p. 314
Bibliography	p. 325
Index	p. 333
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