An edition of Solitary travelers (2001)
Solitary travelers
nineteenth-century women's travel narratives and the scientific vocation
By Lila Marz Harper
Publish Date
2001
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,Associated University Presses
Language
eng
Pages
277
Description:
"Solidary Travelers brings new insight into the study of women's roles in natural history and travel writing. It examines the life and works of four women over approximately a century: Mary Wollstonecraft, Harriet Martineau, Isabella Bird Bishop, and Mary Kingsley, and considers their work in terms of professional ambition in the field of natural history, making a case in the process for the inclusion of such popular texts in the history of science."--BOOK JACKET.
subjects: British, English prose literature, History, History and criticism, Literature and science, Science in literature, Travel, Travel writing, Travelers' writings, English, Women and literature, Women authors, Women travelers, Bird, isabella l. (isabella lucy), 1831-1904, Kingsley, mary henrietta, 1862-1900, Wollstonecraft, mary, 1759-1797, Martineau, harriet, 1802-1876, Travelers' writings, history and criticism, English prose literature, history and criticism, Natural History
People: Harriet Martineau (1802-1876), Isabella L. Bird (1831-1904), Mary Henrietta Kingsley (1862-1900), Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)
Places: Foreign countries, Great Britain
Times: 19th century