Taking Travel Home

The Souvenir Culture of British Women Tourists, 1750–1830

Emma Gleadhill

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English

Manchester University Press
26 April 2022

History; British & Irish history; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; Social & cultural history; Gender studies: women

Series: Gender in History

Taking travel home provides a cultural history of the travel souvenir. It situates the souvenir at the crossroads of competing ideas of what travel stood for which were fought out amongst a rapidly growing constituency of British tourists between 1750 and 1830.

Drawing from the theory of the souvenir as a nostalgic narrative instrument, the book uncovers how elite women tourists developed a souvenir culture around the texts and objects they brought home to realise their ambitions in the arenas of connoisseurship, science and friendship.

Ultimately, it argues that souvenirs are representative of female agency during this period. For elite women, revelling in the independence and identity formation of travel, but hampered by polite models of femininity and reliant on their menfolk, the creation of souvenirs provided a way to prove their claims to the authority of the travelling subject.

By: Emma Gleadhill
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 658g
ISBN: 9781526155276
ISBN 10: 1526155273
Series: Gender in History
Pages: 312
Publication Date: 26 April 2022
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction: remembering travel PART I: GENDERING CONNOISSEURSHIP 1 The Grand Tour: a masculine legacy of taste 2 Shopping for souvenirs 3 Creating their own cultural capital: Lady Anna Miller and Hester Lynch Piozzi PART II: GENDERING SCIENCE 4 Every fair Columbus 5 Dorothy Richardson’s extensive knowledge 6 Lady Elizabeth Holland, the social orchestrator of science PART III: GENDERING FRIENDSHIP 7 From diplomatic gift to trifle from Tunbridge Wells 8 A snuff-box and other Napoleonic keepsakes 9 Princess Ekaterina Dashkova’s gifts to Martha Wilmot Conclusion: remembering the souvenir Index -- .

Emma Gleadhill is a Sydney-based historian and artist -- .