Date of Award
Fall 12-2-2019
Document Type
Honors Project
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
History and American Studies
Department Chair or Program Director
Ferrell, Claudine
First Advisor
Poska, Allyson
Major or Concentration
History
Abstract
Gender, class, and nationality have always affected how travelers perceive the people and cultures of the places they visited. This was especially true in the travel writings of eighteenth-century British women. This research is an exploration of the travels of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Jane Vigor, and Lady Elizabeth Craven through their collections of published letters. The gender, class, and nationality of these three aristocratic British women framed how they perceived the people they met throughout their travels through Europe to Russia and Turkey. These women’s backgrounds were reflected through the stories of their travels and their perspectives on the women in cultures different from their own.
Recommended Citation
Stough, Carolyn, "Gender and Perspective in Eighteenth-Century Women's Travel Writing" (2019). Student Research Submissions. 350.
https://scholar.umw.edu/student_research/350