Women, Writing, and Travel in the Eighteenth Century

The Eighteenth Century Witnessed The Publication Of An Unprecedented Number Of Voyages And Travels, Genuine And Fictional. Within A Genre Distinguished By Its Diversity, Curiosity, And Experimental Impulses, Katrina O'loughlin Investigates Not Just How Women In The Eighteenth Century Experienced Travel, But Also How Travel Writing Facilitated Their Participation In Literary And Political Culture. She Canvases A Range Of Accounts By Intrepid Women, Including Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's 'turkish Embassy Letters', Lady Craven's 'journey Through The Crimea To Constantinople', Eliza Justice's 'a Voyage To Russia', And Anna Maria Falconbridge's 'narrative Of Two Voyages To The River Sierra Leone'. Moving From Ottoman Courts To Theatres Of War, O'loughlin Shows How Gender Frames Access To People And Spaces Outside Enlightenment And Romantic Britain, And How Travel Provides Women With A Powerful Cultural Form For Re-imagining Their Place In The World. Katrina O'loughlin. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 238-273) And Index. 01.0_pp_i_ii_Women_Writing_and_Travel_in_the_Eighteenth_Century 02.0_pp_iii_iii_Women_Writing_and_Travel_in_the_Eighteenth_Century 03.0_pp_iv_iv_Copyright_page 04.0_pp_v_v_Contents 05.0_pp_vi_vii_Acknowledgements 06.0_pp_viii_viii_Note_on_the_Text 07.0_pp_1_29_The_paper_globe 08.0_pp_30_64_A_very_diligent_curiosity 09.0_pp_65_94_Wrecked_on_seas_of_ink 10.0_pp_95_130_Entre_Nous 11.0_pp_131_159_No_small_Wonder_to_see_myself_in_Print 12.0_pp_160_194_My_travels_have_been_to_the_moon_and_the_stars 13.0_pp_195_229_Thorns_and_Thistles 14.0_pp_230_237_La_Dame_Pensive 15.0_pp_238_273_Bibliography 16.0_pp_274_280_Index A wide-ranging study of women's travel writing between 1714 and 1789, including the writings of elite women on sensitive diplomatic missions, working governesses, and middle-class travellers. Katrina O'Loughlin explores women's use of the travel genre to authorise their experiences and to engage in contemporary cultural debates. A wide-ranging exploration of women's travel writing between 1714 and 1789, emphasising women's contribution to processes of cultural change