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Ladies of the Grand Tour : British Women in Pursuit of Enlightenment and Adventure in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Ladies of the Grand Tour British Women in Pursuit of Enlightenment and Adventure in EighteenthCentury Europe
Author: Brian Dolan
According to the 1747 publication The Art of Governing a Wife, women in Georgian England were to "lay up and save, look to the house, talk to few and take of all within." However, some women broke from these directives and took up the distinctly male privilege of traveling to the Continent to develop mind, spirit, and body.For many the Gr...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780060185435
ISBN-10: 0060185430
Publication Date: 11/1/2001
Pages: 352
Edition: 1st
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Publisher: HarperCollins
Book Type: Hardcover
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