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Ladies of the Grand Tour : British women in pursuit of enlightenment and adventure in eighteenth-century Europe / Brian Dolan.

By: Publication details: New York, NY : HarperCollins Publishers, c2001.Edition: 1st edDescription: xi, 337 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0060185430 (acid-free paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 914.04/2/082 21
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Contents:
Machine generated contents note: ILLUSTRATIONS iX -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Xi -- I Belles Lettres and Black Swans -- The Enlightenment & Travel -- 2 'If anything could inspire an unpoetic imagination' 15 -- Education & Improvement -- 3 'The real subject of my journey' 55 -- Liberty & Independence -- 4 'We live as English a I#fe as we can make it' 87 -- Fashionable Society & Foreign Affairs -- 5 'Air gives us powers over our Own Lives' I27 -- Sea Breezes & Sanity -- 6 'An ideal jaunt' I63 -- Fine Art & Fashion -- 7 'A phantom falsely called Liberty' 20I -- Revelation & Revolution -- Ladies of the Grand Tour -- 8 'Returned the best informed and most perfect creatures' 241 -- Bas Bleu Society & Lady Wits - -- 9 'All this has ye air of a Novel' 269 -- A Legacy of Letters & the Grand Tour -- Dramatis Personae 289 -- NOTES 297 -- BIBLIOGRAPHY 313 -- INDEX 331.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book Jessie Street National Women's Library 914.042082 DOL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available for reference in the library and ILL 64144

Originally published: London : HarperCollins, 2001.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-330) and index.

Machine generated contents note: ILLUSTRATIONS iX -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Xi -- I Belles Lettres and Black Swans -- The Enlightenment & Travel -- 2 'If anything could inspire an unpoetic imagination' 15 -- Education & Improvement -- 3 'The real subject of my journey' 55 -- Liberty & Independence -- 4 'We live as English a I#fe as we can make it' 87 -- Fashionable Society & Foreign Affairs -- 5 'Air gives us powers over our Own Lives' I27 -- Sea Breezes & Sanity -- 6 'An ideal jaunt' I63 -- Fine Art & Fashion -- 7 'A phantom falsely called Liberty' 20I -- Revelation & Revolution -- Ladies of the Grand Tour -- 8 'Returned the best informed and most perfect creatures' 241 -- Bas Bleu Society & Lady Wits - -- 9 'All this has ye air of a Novel' 269 -- A Legacy of Letters & the Grand Tour -- Dramatis Personae 289 -- NOTES 297 -- BIBLIOGRAPHY 313 -- INDEX 331.

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