The Author: Kathryn Walchester completed her doctoral thesis at Keele University in Staffordshire in 2005. She is currently working at Liverpool John Moores University.

• Contents: ‘Cradle of Letters’: Literary Italy in women’s writing – Mariana Starke’s ‘Junket’; or Clotted Cream in Sorrento: Letters from Italy (1800) and Travels in Europe (1836) – Charlotte Eaton’s ‘Domestic Vision’: Rome in the Nineteenth Century (1820) – A ‘Manchegan Sally’: Lady Morgan’s Italy (1821) – ‘A real picture of natural and feminine feeling’? Anna Jameson’s Diary of an Ennuyée (1826) – ‘More than a mere gossiping companion’: Mary Shelley’s Rambles in Germany and Italy (1844).

The Author: Kathryn Walchester completed her doctoral thesis at Keele University in Staffordshire in 2005. She is currently working at Liverpool John Moores University.

• Contents: ‘Cradle of Letters’: Literary Italy in women’s writing – Mariana Starke’s ‘Junket’; or Clotted Cream in Sorrento: Letters from Italy (1800) and Travels in Europe (1836) – Charlotte Eaton’s ‘Domestic Vision’: Rome in the Nineteenth Century (1820) – A ‘Manchegan Sally’: Lady Morgan’s Italy (1821) – ‘A real picture of natural and feminine feeling’? Anna Jameson’s Diary of an Ennuyée (1826) – ‘More than a mere gossiping companion’: Mary Shelley’s Rambles in Germany and Italy (1844).

The Author: Kathryn Walchester completed her doctoral thesis at Keele University in Staffordshire in 2005. She is currently working at Liverpool John Moores University.

• Contents: ‘Cradle of Letters’: Literary Italy in women’s writing – Mariana Starke’s ‘Junket’; or Clotted Cream in Sorrento: Letters from Italy (1800) and Travels in Europe (1836) – Charlotte Eaton’s ‘Domestic Vision’: Rome in the Nineteenth Century (1820) – A ‘Manchegan Sally’: Lady Morgan’s Italy (1821) – ‘A real picture of natural and feminine feeling’? Anna Jameson’s Diary of an Ennuyée (1826) – ‘More than a mere gossiping companion’: Mary Shelley’s Rambles in Germany and Italy (1844).