Buy this book on-line Dolan, Brian : Ladies of the Grand Tour : British Women in Pursuit of Enlightenment and Adventure in Eighteenth-Century EuropeHarperCollins, New York, 2001 ISBN 0060185430
"According to the 1747 publication "The Art of Governing a Wife", women in Georgian England were to "lay up and save, look to the house; talk to few and take of all within." However, some women broke from these directives and took up the distinctly male privilege of traveling to the Continent to develop mind, spirit, and body". Book. Book Condition: New. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: New Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Dolan, Brian : Ladies of the Grand Tour : British Women in Pursuit of Enlightenment and Adventure in Eighteenth-Century Europe. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including livres anciens, used books, livres illustrées, out of print books and incunabula. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |