Book ID: CBB000100082

Solitary travelers: Nineteenth-century women's travel narratives and the scientific vocation (2001)

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Harper, Lila Marz (Author)


Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press


Publication Date: 2001
Physical Details: 277 pp., illus., bibl., index
Language: English

Description Discusses Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird (1831-1904), Mary Henrietta Kingsley (1862-1900), Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797), and Harriet Martineau (1802-1876).


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Review Frawley, Maria H. (2002) Review of "Solitary travelers: Nineteenth-century women's travel narratives and the scientific vocation". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 317). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Rosella Perugi
Goodman, Martin
Withers, Charles W. J.
Wisnicki, Adrian S
West-Sooby, John
Ruskin, Steven. W.
Concepts
Travel; exploration
Scientific expeditions
Geography
Women in science
Science and literature
Science and gender
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
18th century
Places
Great Britain
Polar regions
Arctic regions
West Africa
United States
France
Institutions
Oxford University
British Association for the Advancement of Science
National Maritime Museum (Great Britain)
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