Women, Writing, and Travel in the Eighteenth Century

Katrina O'Loughlin is Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Research Fellow in English and Cultural Studies at The University of Western Australia. She writes on eighteenth-century literature and culture, particularly on the histories of space, travel, and emotion. With colleagues, she has edited three volumes on different aspects of the history of emotions, and has published numerous journal articles and chapters in academic books. She is currently preparing new annotated editions of the Memoirs of Mrs Harriet Newell (1815) and Eliza Fay's Letters from India (1817).

• 'The paper globe': women, writing, and travel in the eighteenth century; 1. 'A very diligent curiosity': Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Embassy Letters; 2. 'Wrecked on seas of ink': publicity and sovereignty of taste in Lady Craven's Journey through the Crimea to Constantinople; 3. 'Entre nous': the sociability of feeling in Jane Vigor's Letters from a Lady in Russia; 4. 'No small wonder to see myself in print': virtuous commerce and Eliza Justice's A Voyage to Russia; 5. 'My Travels have been to the Moon and the Stars': Janet Schaw's journal and Atlantic sociability; 6. 'Thorns and thistles': Anna Maria Falconbridge's Two Voyages to the River Sierra Leone; Conclusion. La 'Dame pensive'.

'Impressive in its geographical scope … this valuable contribution to studies in travel writing reanimates crucial voices in eighteenth-century literature and culture. Women, Writing, and Travel in the Eighteenth Century would interest scholars focused on alternative literary histories of subjectivity (as distinct from the novel), premodern travel writing, women's writing, eighteenth-century colonial discourse, the emergence of a secular middle class, politics and British aristocratic identity, eighteenth-century Russia and the Levant, and more.' Laura Williamson Ambrose, Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal