Description
Book SynopsisExplores British women's journeys abroad on steamships and trains during a period of great social, cultural and technical change, using a wide variety of sources including women's letters and diaries, contemporary art, advertising, fiction and etiquette guides.
Trade ReviewWomen, Travel and Identity: Journeys by Rail and Sea, 1870-1940 offers a refreshing contribution to studies of women’s travel: as Robinson-Tomsett’s identifies, the experience of the ‘paying woman journeyer’ (3) has remained largely hidden from view. It is these everyday women, travelling for leisure and pleasure, who are brought to light in this study which seeks to explore how women constructed their identities as travellers in a period in which their statuses and roles, in public and private, were undergoing radical reformulations. -- .
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Part I: The culture of female journeying
1. The big luggage went a fortnight ago: making the journey abroad
2. Fashion plate heroines: imagining the female journeyer
3. No nice girl swears: advice, etiquette and expectation
Part II: Journey practices
4. Ordering the berth: the spaces of journeying
5. Busy practising games: scrutiny and sociability
6. Full of wickedness: romantic opportunity and sexual hazard?
Part III: Journey identity
7. Where her story begins: fashioning a journeyer identity
Conclusion
Appendix: Women Journeyers
Bibliography
Index
