Victorian Women Travel Authors: Recruitment and Development,1830-1900

Victorian Women Travel Authors: Recruitment and Development,1830-1900

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2019 DSRF Award Winner Lexi Kadis

This summer, I had the opportunity to visit Edinburgh, Scotland and London, England to conduct research for my senior thesis on the role of women travel authors in the Victorian publishing industry. At the British Library in London, I read through correspondence sent by Mary Kingsley, a famous ethnographer and travel writer, to her publisher George MacMillan.