1st Edition

Women's Travel Writing, 1750-1850

Edited By Caroline Franklin
3094 Pages
by Routledge

3094 Pages
by Routledge

The Romantic Period saw a massive advance in British colonial expansion, which was accompanied by a corresponding expansion in travel writings. These published letters, journals and books provided British readers with detailed accounts of new and exotic locations and thus engaged the reading public with expansionist enterprises. Covering the period of the French Revolution up until Victoria’s... Read more

Volumes I and II: Letters from France Helen Maria Williams  Volume III: Narrative of Two Voyages to the River Sierra Leone A.M. Falconbridge  Volume IV: Original Letters from India  Eliza Fay  Volume V: Letters from the Island of Tenerife, Brazil, Cape of Good Hope and the East Indies Mrs Kindersley  Volumes VI, VII and VIII: Italy Lady Morgan

Biography

Caroline Franklin (University of Wales, Swansea, UK)