Women Wanderers and the Writing of Mobility, 1784-1814

In the last days of the Scandinavian journey that would become the basis of her great post-Revolutionary travel book, Mary Wollstonecraft wrote, ''I am weary of travelling - yet seem to have no home - no resting place to look to - I am strangely cast off''. From this starting point, Ingrid Horrocks reveals the significance of representations of women wanderers in the late-eighteenth and early-nine...