18 research outputs found
Besse\u27s Sufferings of Early Quakers (York: Sessions Book Trust). East Anglia and East Midlands - Book Review
Gill\u27s Women in the Seventeenth-Century Quaker Community: A Literary Study of Political Identities, 1650-1700 - Book Review
Faedo\u27s A Bio-bibliography of Eighteenth-century Religious Women in England and Spain - Book Review
Burton\u27s A Social History of Quakers in Scotland, 1800-2000 and Burnet & Marwick\u27s The Story of Quakerism in Scotland 1650- 1950 - Book Review
Tourists and travellers: women's non-fictional writing about Scotland 1770-1830
In this dissertation I consider the travels, and the travel and other non-fictional writings, of five women who travelled within Scotland during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century: the anonymous author of A Journey to the Highlands of Scotland; Sarah Murray (later known as Sarah Aust); Anne Grant of Laggan, Dorothy Wordsworth; and Sarah Hazlitt. During this period, travel and tourism in Scotland changed radically from a time when there were few travellers and little provision for those few, through to Scotland's emergence as a fully organised tourist destination. Simultaneous with these changes came changes in writing.
I examine the changes in the ways in which travellers travelled in, perceived and wrote about Scotland during the period 1770-1830. I explore the specific ways in which five women travel writers represented themselves and their travels. I investigate the relationship of gender to the travel writings produced by these five women, relating that to issues of production and reception as well as to questions of discourse. Finally, I explore the relationship between the geographical location of travels and travel writing