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Women's travel writing [ Reading & Writing / Mobility ]

… and form of the government. Practices > Reading & Writing Practices > Mobility Keywords Women Travel French Revolution travelogue wollstonecraft montagu beaumont biggs Williams In her preface to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s Letters Written, … influence on women’s accounts generating a degree of de facto difference from male-authored narratives’. 5 If women’s travelogues never outnumbered those of men during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (out of the 1,400 travelogues published between 1690 and 1800, only 40 were written by women), they nonetheless made an apt use of this …

Helen Maria Williams [ Art and Literature / Travel ]

… events from the Revolution to the Restoration. People > Art and Literature People > Travel Keywords Women Salon Letters travelogue French Revolution Girondins napoleonic era National specificities sociable spaces Helen Maria Williams … festivals that peaked during The Terror (II,2,6). 19 . Williams thus reconfigured several literary forms (letters, travelogues, romance) that were more assimilated to the feminine than to the masculine in gender norms and increasingly … chronicler of social practices and historical events from the Revolution to the Restoration. … Women … Salon … Letters … travelogue … French Revolution … Girondins … napoleonic era … National specificities … sociable spaces … Helen Maria …

Ascot [ Games & Sports / Sports & Leisure ]

… firent d’Ascot un lieu à la mode. Practices > Games & Sports Places > Sports & Leisure Keywords sports horseracing Ascot Travelogues pastimes Gambling Fashion culture Urban life Origines, évolutions et architecture d’un domaine royal … Nous nous intéresserons ici aux pratiques qui firent d’Ascot un lieu à la mode. … sports … horseracing … Ascot … Travelogues … pastimes … Gambling … Fashion … culture … Urban life … Ascot …

Inns [ Residences & Lodgings ]

… and used it as a backdrop to chance encounters and as a symbolic microcosm of society. 8  Inns also figured regularly in travelogues. The range of inns a traveller might encounter in the course of a journey and the quality of food, drink, and …