Solitary travelers : nineteenth-century women's travel narratives and the scientific vocation

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Solitary travelers : nineteenth-century women's travel narratives and the scientific vocation

Title remainder

nineteenth-century women's travel narratives and the scientific vocation

Statement of responsibility

Lila Marz Harper

Creator

• Harper, Lila Marz, 1955-

Subject

• British -- Foreign countries -- History -- 19th century
• English prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
• English prose literature -- Women authors | History and criticism
• Kingsley, Mary Henrietta, 1862-1900 -- Travel
• Literature and science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
• Bird, Isabella L., (Isabella Lucy), 1831-1904 -- Travel
• Science in literature
• Travelers' writings, English -- History and criticism
• Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797 -- Travel
• Women travelers -- History -- 19th century
• Martineau, Harriet, 1802-1876 -- Travel

Language

eng

Summary

"Solidary Travelers brings new insight into the study of women's roles in natural history and travel writing. It examines the life and works of four women over approximately a century: Mary Wollstonecraft, Harriet Martineau, Isabella Bird Bishop, and Mary Kingsley, and considers their work in terms of professional ambition in the field of natural history, making a case in the process for the inclusion of such popular texts in the history of science."--BOOK JACKET

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

820.9/355

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

PR788.T72

LC item number

H37 2001

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography