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This article deals with two travel narratives written in the mid-nineteenth century by genteel English women and explores issues of nation, empire and gender. These travel accounts record journeys to two different areas of the globe, namely Hungary and New South Wales, and a close reading of these texts reveals a great deal of similarity in terms of their subject matter and writing strategies. The authors were unusual young women who transgressed gender demarcations by bringing out their own publications, intruding into the public domain of men. I will argue that these travel writings, irrespective of their travel destinations, reflected a common cultural and social background that stemmed from English genteel ideals.
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Nation, Empire and Gender : Two Genteel English Women Writing about Australia and Hungary in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Journal of the European Association for Studies of Australia
Subjects:
- Notes and Sketches of New South Wales During a Residence in That Colony from 1839 to 1844 1844 single work prose
- New South Wales,
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cHungary,cEastern Europe, Europe,
- 1800-1899
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