Women's travel writing [ Reading & Writing / Mobility ]
… 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 narratives as the formation of … form of the government. Practices > Reading & Writing Practices > Mobility Mots-clés Education French Revolution Travel Women In her preface to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s Letters Written, during her Travels in Europe, Asia and Africa … (‘customs and manners’) but also as a means (‘conversation’) of acquiring a more unbiased knowledge of the countries women visited. Lady Montagu, for instance, describes her own encounter with Turkish sociable practices to debunk the …
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