Women's Travel Writings in Post-Napoleonic France
Series Editors: Stephen Bending and Stephen Bygrave
Editors: Lucy Morrison and Benjamin Colbert
Chawton House Library
Chawton House Library: Women’s Travel Writings
978 1 85196 655 4: Hb: £350.00/$625.00
978 1 85196 660 8: Hb: £350.00/$625.00
This eight-volume set in two parts gives voice to some intrepid women travellers touring post-Napoleonic France. The volumes are facsimile editions and are introduced and edited by experts in their field.
- All texts are republished in full
- Selected for their rarity, the texts are drawn from Chawton House’s unparalleled collection
- Most of the texts included have never before been republished
- Each set in the series includes a substantial general introduction, headnotes, endnotes and a consolidated index in their final volume
- Each facsimile page is digitally cleaned and enhanced, significantly improving on the quality and legibility of the original
Contents
Part I
Volume 1
Marianne Baillie, First Impressions on a Tour upon the Continent (1819).
Volume 2
Frances Jane Carey, Journal of a Tour in France in the Years 1816 and 1817 (1823).
Volume 3
Elizabeth Strutt Byron, Six Weeks on the Loire (1833).
Volume 4
Anne Carter, Letters from a Lady to her sister during a Tour to Paris (1814).
Part II
Volumes 5 & 6
Fanny Trollope, Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (1836)
Volumes 7 & 8
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan, France (1817).