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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"women travellers"”.
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In the Footsteps of: The Challenge of Recreating and Reflecting on the Writings and Achievements of Historic Women Travellers.
… on the journeys and experience of four female travellers of the eighteenth end nineteenth centuries: Isabela Godin, Mary Kingsley, Kate Marsden and Isabella Bird. Recreating their journeys enabled reflection on their achievements and experiences at a time when their aspirations were disdained, …
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British women’s travel writings in the era of the French Revolution
… intends to investigate how educated British women travellers challenged conventional female roles and how they participated in the political culture in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic era. Part One will discuss those who tried hard to challenge or to correct traditionally-defined femininity …
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Discovering the Balkans: British Travellers in Southeastern Europe, 1861--1911
… Section II emphasizes the history of British travellers in the region up to 1861, William Gladstone and the politicization of Balkan travel literature, and the influence of the 1870s Balkan crisis on the nature of travel to the Balkans. Section III investigates the background and influence of …
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’Only a Woman’: women travel writers and imperialism
My study of women travel writers and imperialism is informed by four inseparable concerns, namely the distinctive characteristics of travel writing by women; how these reflected and reproduced spatial differentiation, notably between spheres of patriarchal and imperial power and authority; how the …
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Irresistible grace : excerpt from a novel, and, Looking back: on writing, travel and the gaze : an essay
This thesis consists of a creative component, the first half of a novel, ‘Irresistible Grace’, and an exegesis, ‘Looking back: On writing, travel and the gaze.’ The novel begins in Manchester and centres on Caitlin, an Australian woman in her late twenties, who learns of her partner Pedro’s affair. …