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This book provides a new cultural history of the travel souvenir. It uncovers how eighteenth-century British women enlisted the objects they collected during their European travels to realise their ambitions in the arenas of connoisseurship, science and friendship, and to stake their claims to agency and authority as travelling subjects. -- .

Taking Travel Home

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    A Paperback by Emma Gleadhill

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: 1/3/2025
      ISBN13: 9781526191618, 978-1526191618
      ISBN10: 152619161X
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      Gender studies: women and girls

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book provides a new cultural history of the travel souvenir. It uncovers how eighteenth-century British women enlisted the objects they collected during their European travels to realise their ambitions in the arenas of connoisseurship, science and friendship, and to stake their claims to agency and authority as travelling subjects. -- .

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