Great Women Travel Writers: From 1750 to the Present

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Alba Amoia, Bettina Knapp
A&C Black, 2 jun 2006 - 304 páginas
Travel can be sacred, an escape, and always enlightening. Women explorers and travelers are a special breed. Some were also incredible writers, recording their cross-cultural impressions with stunning vividness, often crossing into the most patriarchal cultures. The editors and a team of contemporary writers profile 22 courageous women who form a grand tradition. Among them, Lady Hester Stanhope (1776-1839), Fanny Lewald (1811-89), Pandita Ramabai (1858-1922), Gertrude Bell (1868-1926), Isak Dinesen (1885-1962), Anaïs Nin (1903-77), Freya Stark (1893-1993), Ruth Gruber (1911- ), Oriana Fallaci (1930- ). "The writing styles flow well, and the book gives a highly readable introduction to some lesser-known female authors." - Library Journal "As a starting point for readers looking to explore the subject, the anthology will serve quite well." - Publishers Weekly.Great Women Travel Writers is indexed in H.W. Wilson's Essay and General Literature Index.
 

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Introduction
9
Princess Ekaterina Catherine Romanovna Vorontsova Dashkova 17431810
11
Friederike Brun 17651835
27
Lady Hester Stanhope 17761839
38
Fredrika Bremer 18011865
55
Princess Cristina Trivulzio di Belgiojoso 18081871
64
Fanny Lewald 18111889
86
Belle Marsh Poate 18471896
96
Alexandra DavidNeel 18681969
158
Isabelle Eberhardt 18771904
170
Isak Dinesen Karen Blixen 18851962
179
Freya Stark 18931993
194
Hayashi Fumiko 19031951
205
Anaïs Nin 19031977
219
Xie Bingying born Ming Gang 19062000
232
Ruth Gruber 1911
248

Pandita Ramabai 18581922
113
Daisy Bates 18591951
126
Edith Wharton 18621937
139
Gertrude Bell 18681926
147
Sharon Spencer 19332002
272
Select General Bibliography
293
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Alba Amoia is the author of Twentieth-century Italian Women Writers, No Mothers We!, Albert Camus, Feodor Dostoevsky, and other works. She lives in Rome. BETTINA L. KNAPP is the author of over 50 books, including Anaïs Nin, Gertrude Stein, Antonin Artaud, French Fairy Tales: A Jungian Approach, and Women in Myth. She lives in New York City. Both editors have traveled the world, apart and together.

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