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‘A marvellous shackle-breaking drama…[the lives of these] extraordinary, trend-setting female travellers.’ Sunday Telegraph
’A fascinating subject.’ Sunday Times
‘What shines out in a finely researched and presented work is the uncommon fortitude of these early travellers.’ Daily Telegraph
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Sunday Times "what shines out in a finely researched and presented work is the uncommon fortitude of these early travellers";
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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I like reading history books and this was one of the most interesting I have read for a while, but I am left wondering just how many more interesting voices from the past are left untold. This book, which explains how and why a number of different women from the eighteenth century were able to travel abroad, I think does well to cover a good sampling of lost experiences (some told here in more depth than others, which I prefer since they offer fascinating 'mini stories'), but I'm left wondering how many others were able to travel and explore different customs and people. Real history, I guess, does not have all the answers, but if there are more women like Mary Berry (a woman who took charge of her fathers and sisters life and convinced them to go to Europe in search of a better way of life) or Helen Maria Williams (who, like her friend Mary Wollstonecraft wanted to be in Paris to see the revolution and ended up living there) and others, then I want to know about them.
14 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I found this a refreshing book--for me it captures the excitement and stimulation of travel without at all diminishing the intellectual or emotional consequences of it. The desires these women had to travel and their commitment to do so make it a compelling, if also sometimes racy, read.
Format:Paperback
The Grand Tour has long been assumed to have been a male preserve. Young aristocrats or the sons of the newly wealthy would set off for a year or two to see the cultural highlights of Europe and to gain some sexual experience in brothels along the way before returning to 'settle down'. Their fiancees - ever patient - were left behind, communicated with by letter. The men would often have their portraits painted in the Grand Manner and collect souvenirs.
This book reminds us that sometimes - albeit rarely - women made that trip too. It is excellent at setting the scene, making you think about the practicalities of wearing voluminous clothing whilst trying to cross the Alps. It's also a fantastic reminder that the C18th was a complex, contradictory era. A must for students of C18th history or for art history students.
This book reminds us that sometimes - albeit rarely - women made that trip too. It is excellent at setting the scene, making you think about the practicalities of wearing voluminous clothing whilst trying to cross the Alps. It's also a fantastic reminder that the C18th was a complex, contradictory era. A must for students of C18th history or for art history students.
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