Ladies of the Grand Tour : British women in pursuit of enlightenment and adventure in eighteenth-century Europe / Brian Dolan.
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)
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Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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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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