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Dolan, Brian

Ladies of the Grand Tour : British Women in Pursuit of Enlightenment and Adventure in Eighteenth-Century Europe

HarperCollins, 2001

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Year of publication
2001
ISBN
0060185430
Place of printing
New York
Author
Dolan, Brian
Publishers
HarperCollins
Keyword
TRAVEL HISTORY WOMEN TRAVELERS GENERAL
Cover description
New
Binding description
H
Dust jacket
Yes
State of preservation
New
Binding
Hardcover
Inscribed
No
First edition
No

Description

"According to the 1747 publication "The Art of Governing a Wife", women in Georgian England were to "lay up and save, look to the house; talk to few and take of all within." However, some women broke from these directives and took up the distinctly male privilege of traveling to the Continent to develop mind, spirit, and body"

Edizione: 1st.us ed.