British Women's Travel to Greece, 1840-1914

Beginning with the publication of the first Murray guidebook to Greece in 1840 and ending with Virginia Woolf''s journey to Athens, this book offers a genealogy of British women''s travel literature about Greece. Churnjeet Mahn recounts the women''s first-hand experiences of the sites and sights of antiquity, analyzing travel accounts by archaeologists, ethnographers, journalists, and tourists to ...