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Ladies of the Grand Tour : British women in pursuit of enlightenment and adventure in eighteenth-century Europe
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- Creator
- Brian Dolan
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- New York, NY : HarperCollins Publishers, [2001]
- ©2001
- Physical Details
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- xi, 337 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780060185435, 0060185430
- OCLC
- ocm46872179
- Originally published: London : HarperCollins, 2001.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-330) and index.
- Belles lettres and black swans: the enlightenment and travel -- If anything could inspire an unpoetic imagination : education and improvement -- The real subject of my journey : liberty and independence -- We live as English a life as we can make it : fashionable society and foreign affairs -- Air gives us powers over our Own Lives : sea breezes and sanity -- An ideal jaunt : fine art and fashion -- A phantom falsely called Liberty : revelation and revolution -- Returned the best informed and most perfect creatures : bas bleu society and lady wits -- All this has ye air of a Novel : a legacy of letters and the grand tour -- Dramatis personae