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Author: Brian Dolan. Title: Ladies of the Grand Tour. Format: Paperback. Release Year: 2002. Katie Hickman. Country/Region of Manufacture: GB. Genre: History. Item Height: 198mm.

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'An utterly absorbing account, brilliantly researched and written, of women's lives and travels in the 18th-century.' Katie Hickman According to 'The Art of Governing A Wife' (1747), women in Georgian England were supposed to 'lay up and save, look to the house; talk to few and take of all within'. However, some broke from these taboos and took up the previously male privilege of travelling to the Continent to develop mind, spirit and body. Hearing of the delights of the Grand Tour from pioneering friends, increasing numbers of English ladies set off to sample foreign lands from which many returned apparently 'the best informed and most perfect creatures'. For others the Grand Tour was an intellectual and romantic rite of passage, widening their knowledge of society, love and politics and inspiring a genre of literary fiction all of its own. Brian Dolan leads us into the hearts and minds of the ladies through the stories, thoughts and court gossip recorded in their journals, letters and diaries.

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Publication NameLadies of the Grand Tour

LanguageEnglish

SubjectHistory

Publication Year2002

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AuthorBrian Dolan

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by 84patch*
15 Dec, 2016
Adventurous women on the Grand Tour
Georgian England had very rigid ideas of the place of women in society. Whilst most men of the Enlightenment traveled to broaden their education (and to add to their art collections), women were restricted in all aspects of their lives. Even upper-class and wealthy women were constrained by family, religion and lack of control of their own money. But some women achieved freedom. This book is a fascinating account of the lives of a dozen women who broke with the conventions which kept them poorly educated, tied to family and limited in their education: they traveled alone, or with friends to "see the world" and see how women lived elsewhere, to meet new ideas and to be free. Some, against all odds, had already learned classical Greek and Latin, others used a knowledge of modern languages to open doors. Many decided never to return to the restrictions of England. "The Grand Tour" as rarely presented, from their letters and journals. A very interesting read.
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