Ladies of the Grand Tour
British Women in Pursuit of Enlightenment and Adventure in Eighteenth-Century Europe
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Word Count
88,000 words, Guess
Page Count
352 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-100060185430
- ISBN-139780060185435
- LibraryThing145667
- Goodreads432609
- Library of Congress Control Number2001024916
and 3 more
- OCLC Control Number46872179
- Better World Books9780060185435
- Open LibraryOL7275705M
Classifications
- LCCD917 .D65 2001
- LCCD917.D65 2001
Description
"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 Grand Tour - often under taken in great parades of coaches laden with servants, trunks, and furniture - became an intellectual and romantic rite of passage. The landscape, health spas, salons, and social scene of Enlightenment Europe provided a wealth of glamorous, revolutionary, and therapeutic experiences from which many ladies returned "the best informed and most perfect creatures."". "Brian Dolan leads us into the hearts and minds of the ladies through their stories, thoughts, and court gossip, recorded in journals, letters, and diaries. Ladies of the Grand Tour creates a mesmerizing portrait of a previously overlooked slice of eighteenth-century life."--BOOK JACKET.
First Sentence
UNBEKNOWN TO MARY BERRY, two days before she wrote to her confidant Bertie Greatheed in Gottingen, Admiral Nelson's fleet had destroyed Napoleon Bonaparte's army in the battle of the Nile, quashing the French Egyptian expedition and effectively ending French plans to aggravate Britain further by thrusting at India.
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