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During the last twenty years, women’s travel writing has moved definitively into the foreground of the Romantic literary landscape, and critical work has opened up global vistas onto women’s experience during this period. Although still under-represented in modern editions in comparison to their Victorian counterparts, the primary texts are becoming more widely available, in traditional book format and through electronic resources like Eighteenth-Century Collections Online and Google Books. It is now feasible to research and write on the material — even teach it to undergraduates — in a way that was simply not possible two decades ago.1
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Jane Robinson, Wayward Women: a Guide to Women Travellers ( 1990; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001 ).
Zoe Kinsley, Women Writing the Home Tour, 1682–1812 ( Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008 ).
Katherine Turner, ‘From Classical to Imperial: Changing Visions of Turkey in the Eighteenth Century’, in Travel Writing and Empire: Postcolonial Theory in Transit, ed. by Steve Clark (London: Zed Books, 1999 ), pp. 113–28.
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Katherine Turner, British Travel Writers in Europe, 1750–1800: Authorship, Gender and National Identity ( Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001 ).
Margaret Anne Doody, ‘Sensuousness in the Poetry of Eighteenth-Century Women Poets’, in Women’s Poetry in the Enlightenment: The Making of a Canon, 1730–1820, ed. by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1999), pp. 3–32 (p. 4).
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Turner, K. (2010). Women’s Travel Writing, 1750–1830. In: Labbe, J.M. (eds) The History of British Women’s Writing, 1750–1830. The History of British Women’s Writing. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230297012_3
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