Author: Harper, Lila Marz
Title: Solitary Travelers: Nineteenth Century Women's Travel Narratives and the Scientific Vocation
Description: Madison, New Jersey / London, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press / Associated University Presses, 2001. Hardcover. Black cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; pale green dj with bw illustration and black lettering, mylar cover; 277 pp, bw illustrations. Taking a biographical casebook approach, this study examines four women writers of natural history who traveled between the 1790s and 1890s. Focusing on the travel writings of Mary Wollstonecraft, Harriet Martineau, Isabella Bird Bishop, and Mary Kingsley, four women who primarily traveled alone, Solitary travelers asks what sort of rhetorical strategies were used by women to move popularly accessible travel accounts into the scientific, professional sphere during a time when opportunities for women to engage in natural history field work became more and more restricted.- publisher. Contents include: New opportunities: women, science, and travel. -- Mary Wollstonecraft: "a new genus" -- Harriet Martineau: an investigative observer. -- Isabella Bird Bishop: an RGS fellow. -- Mary H. Kingsley: in pursuit of fish and fetish. VG-/VG- (Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine, inside front and rear covers, ffep and block. Fading to dj. ) .

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