TALK: Friends of the Library talk

Traditionally it has been men’s accounts of exploration and conquest that have received the most press and the wider acclaim. However, they were not the only sex whose extensive travels attracted a wide readership in Victorian Britain. Overlooked until relatively recently, the critical view that late nineteenth-century women travellers were poor carbon copies of male originals has been increasingly shown to be untenable. This talk will map out the travel stories of just a few of these peripatetic late nineteenth-century women.

About the Speaker

Dr Monica Anderson teaches in English, Communication & Cultural Studies and Graduate Education at The University of Western Australia. She has been a researcher on various projects associated with study of the nineteenth-century periodical press and is the Administrator of the journal Westerly. Most recently she has published with Judith Johnston, the anthology Australia Imagined. Views from the British Periodical Press 1800-1900 (Perth: UWA Press, 2005). A book, Women and the Politics of Travel, 1870-1914, is forthcoming with Fairleigh Dickinson Press, USA.

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