Ladies of the Grand Tour
By Brian Dolan.
Description
`An utterly absorbing account, brilliantly researched and written, of women's lives and travels in the 18th-century.' Katie HickmanAccording to `The Art of Governing A Wife' (1747), women in Georgian England were supposed to `lay up and save, look to the house; talk to few and take of all within'. However, some broke from these taboos and took up the previously male privilege of travelling to the Continent to develop mind, spirit and body.Hearing of the delights of the Grand Tour from pioneering friends, increasing numbers of English ladies set off to sample foreign land...
ISBN(s)
0007105339, 9780007105335
