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Sixteen of their stories - sometimes published under the name of a male relative, sometimes under anonymous bylines such as "a Lady" - are here recovered and co
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This book is the first edited collection to offer an intersectional account of gender in mountaineering adventure sports and leisure. It provides original theor
Victorians in the Mountains
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Authors: Ann C. Colley
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In her compelling book, Ann C. Colley examines the shift away from the cult of the sublime that characterized the early part of the nineteenth century to the le
Women Rewriting Boundaries
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Women Rewriting Boundaries expands the work of gender and literary scholars by offering fresh insights on how to read travel writing by women. It analyzes the c
The Right Sort of Woman
Language: en
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Authors: Precious McKenzie Stearns
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The rhetoric surrounding Empire, freedom, and adventure are nowhere more striking than in nineteenth-century British women’s travel writing. The Right Sort of