Women's travel writing [ Reading & Writing / Mobility ]
… Summer of 1794 through Holland and the Western Frontier of Germany (1795), Louise Elisa Beaumont’s A Sketch of Modern France (1798)) or using the lens of sociability (described by Elizabeth A. Bohls as ‘surface display and sensuous … of commerce and cosmopolitan culture. In her Observations and Reflections Made in the course of a journey through France, Italy, and Germany (1789) , Hesther Thrale Piozzi is often tempted by picturesque descriptions, yet her narrative … deserve our attention’. 9 9 . Hester Lynch Piozzi, Observations and Reflections Made in the course of a journey through France, Italy, and Germany (London: A. Strahan, 1789), p. 32. Nowhere is this process of self-definition in relation to …
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