TOURISTS AND TRAVELLERS: WOMEN'S NON-FICTIONAL WRITING ABOUT SCOTLAND, 1770-1830

摘要

Betty Hagglund's concise volume is an elegant case study-like read that examines the journeys of five English women to Scotland from 1777 to 1822. They include an anonymous woman referred to as "L" (1777), Sarah Murray (1796), Dorothy Wordsworth (1803), Anne Grant (1807), and Sarah Hazlitt (1822). This eloquendy written book is comprised of seven chapters: one chapter is dedicated to each of the five women, and these are preceded by two introductory chapters that aim to contextualize the study. The first of these introductory chapters combines a brief discussion on the history of differences that have been thought to exist between "tourists" and "travelers," with a summary of features that characterize women's non-fictional writing about Scodand during the time period examined. The second highlights die nature of changes to Scodand as they relate to tourism development in the 18th and 19th centuries.