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Women, writing, and travel in the eighteenth century /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: O'Loughlin, Katrina
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: NewYork: Cambridge, 2018.
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Table of Contents:
  • 'A very diligent curiosity': Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Embassy Letters
  • 'Wrecked on seas of ink': publicity and sovereignty of taste in Lady Craven's Journey through the Crimea to Constantinople
  • 'Entre nous': the sociability of feeling in Jane Vigor's letters from a lady in Russia
  • 'No small wonder to see myself in print': virtuous commerce and Eliza Justice's Voyage to Russia
  • 'My travels have been to the moon and the stars': Janet Schaw's journal and Atlantic sociability
  • 'Thorns and thistles': Anna Maria Falconbridge's two voyages to the river Sierra Leone.