‘Our observations should not be disunited: Collaborative Women’s Travel Writing, 1780-1840

Before 1780, only ten books of travel by women had been published in Britain and Ireland, all by single authors if we discount the role of translators (two of the ten were translations from the French). After 1780, as the Database of Women’s Travel Writing (2014) demonstrates with statistical accur...

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מחבר ראשי: Colbert, Benjamin
פורמט: Article ou chapitre numérique
שפה:Anglais
יצא לאור: Viatica 2023
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גישה מקוונת:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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סיכום:Before 1780, only ten books of travel by women had been published in Britain and Ireland, all by single authors if we discount the role of translators (two of the ten were translations from the French). After 1780, as the Database of Women’s Travel Writing (2014) demonstrates with statistical accuracy, women for the first time established themselves as a continuous presence in the travel writing market, increasing their output from 5 titles in the 1780s to 74 in the 1830s. These figures incl...