… sociability enabled female authors to tackle political issues, a field considered to be inappropriate in the education of eighteenth-century women. The revolutionary decade intensified the politicisation of sociability in travel … tied up with the nature and form of the government. Practices > Reading & Writing Practices > Mobility Keywords Education French Revolution Travel Women In her preface to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s Letters Written, during her … has clearly established the connections between the literary form and intersectional factors such as genre, class, education, ideology, and financial situation to understand the issues they addressed in their travel narratives and the …