Women's travel writing [ Reading & Writing / Mobility ]
… Wortley Montagu, The Turkish Embassy Letters (London: Virago Press, 1994), p. 58. Sociable values (‘the politeness of a court’, ‘the gentleness of a lady’) are also invoked by Mary Astell to tone down prejudices and soften the narrated … or savage mirth: ‘I have seen […] a cotillion performed as gravely and as mechanically as the ceremonies of a Chinese court.’ (Biggs, II, 26). 13 . Katherine Turner, British Travel Writers in Europe 1750-1800 (Routledge 2018), p. 205. The …
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