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Women, travel and identity : Journeys by rail and sea, 1870-1940 /
Between 1870 and 1940, a period of dramatic social, cultural and technological change, millions of British women journeyed abroad on steamships and trains, motivated by economic need, a desire to start a new life, faith, health, love, curiosity or sheer necessity. Women, travel and identity explores...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York [New York] :
Manchester University Press,
2013.
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| Colección: | Gender in history.
Book collections on Project MUSE. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The big luggage went a fortnight ago : making the journey abroad
- Fashion plate heroines: imagining the female journeyer
- No nice girl swears : advice, etiquette and expectation
- Ordering the berth : the spaces of journeying
- Busy practising the games : scrutiny and sociability
- Full of wickedness : romantic opportunity and sexual hazard?
- Where her story begins : fashioning a journeyer identity.