A wider range travel writing by women in Victorian England Frawley, Maria H. 1961- creator text bibliography Criticism, interpretation, etc. History. nju 1994 monographic eng print 237 pages ; 24 cm. A Wider Range makes an exciting new addition to Victorian cultural studies by examining the multifarious forms of writing that emerged out of Victorian women's travels throughout the wider world. Looking closely at representative examples of Victorian women's published accounts of their travels, Frawley argues that many of these women conceived of foreign lands as sites in which to situate their bid for public authority and cultural credibility. While this travel writing reveals the imaginative investments that Victorians made in the wider world, it also exposes the extent to which women used these imaginative investments to professional advantage, finding in different places opportunities for personal and professional self-fashioning. After an introduction that surveys the field of women's travel writing and places it within current thinking about Victorian configurations of gender and genre, Maria H. Frawley studies the kinds of professional identities cultivated in this literature. Two chapters focus on the major bodies of women's travel writing, those written by tourist women and those written by women who constructed identities as adventuresses. These chapers include discussion of travel writing by such major figures as Mary Shelley, Isabella Bird Bishop, and Mary Kingsley as well as that of less-known travel writers such as Charlotte Eaton, Frances Elliot, Amelia Edwards, and Florence Dixie. She then assesses the work of more select groups of women, including Harriet Martineau, Anna Jameson, Lady Eastlake, and Frances Power Cobbe, who used their travel experiences to fashion professional identities as sociologists, ethnologists, historians, and art historians. "These women discovered that they could use their writing as a forum to rethink the doctrine of s̀eparate spheres,'" Frawley argues. Taken cumulatively, their work represents an unprecedented effort to cross psychological and institutional barriers perceived to be so central to Victorian culture. Despite - or perhaps because of - its noncanonical status, this literature challenges the stability of the "separate sphere" ideology that dominatcs thinking about Victorian women, their writing, and their culture. A Wider Range is certain to be of interest to anyone interested in Victorian literature, gender studies, and cultural studies. 1. Voyagers Out: Victorian Women Abroad -- 2. Into the Temple of Taste: Victorian Women in Italy -- 3. The Professionalization of Taste: Art Historians Abroad -- 4. Fair Amazons Abroad: The Social Construction of the Victorian Adventuress -- 5. Spots of Time: Victorian Women in the Middle East -- 6. Declarations of Independence: Victorian Women in America -- Conclusion: Victorian Women and the Spirit of Place. Maria H. Frawley. Also issued online. Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-232) and index. e-uk--- Travelers' writings, English History and criticism English prose literature Women authors History and criticism Women travelers Great Britain Biography History and criticism English prose literature 19th century History and criticism Women and literature Great Britain History 19th century British Foreign countries History 19th century Travel writing History 19th century Travel in literature Reisbeschrijvingen Engelsen Vrouwelijke auteurs Victoriaanse tijd Reisebericht Schriftstellerin Reiseliteratur Frau Frauenliteratur Travelers' writings, English Women authors History and criticism Voyages and travels Historiography British Travel Historiography Women Travel Historiography Englisch Grossbritannien British Foreign countries English prose literature English prose literature Women authors Literature Travel Travel writing Travelers' writings, English Women and literature Women travelers Biography Great Britain Geschichte 1800-1900 swd 1800 - 1899 fast PR778.T72 F7 1994 820.9/355 74.05 18.05 Wider range Frawley, Maria H., 1961- Rutherford, N.J. : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, c1994 (OCoLC)625287368 083863544X (alk. paper) 9780838635445 (alk. paper) 92055127 DLC 921130 20151002061446.0 in00001195737 eng