Spinsters Abroad
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expeditions
journeys
sutton history classics
travel
victorian
Victorian Lady Explorers
victorians
women in history
women's history
women’s history
Product details
- ISBN 9780750937214
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 18 Mar 2004
- Publisher: The History Press Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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What spurred so many Victorian women to leave behind the security and comfort of their middle-class homes to undertake perilous journeys of thousands of miles? This book draws on the diaries, letters and other writings of more than 50 such women to describe their experiences and aspirations.
Dea Birkett was born in 1958 and is an author, journalist and traveller. She won the Somerset Maughan Award for Jella: From Lagos to Liverpool: A woman at Sea in a Man's World. Her other books include Serpent in Paradise, an account of her time on Pitcairn Island with the descendants of the Bounty Mutineers and Amazonians: The Penguin book of Women's Travel writing.
