The years between 1870 and 1940 are often considered a 'golden age'
of travel: as larger and evermore sumptuous ships and trains were
built, including the Orient Express, Blue Train, Lusitania and
Normandie, journeying abroad became, and remains today, synonymous
with chic, splendour and luxury. Utilising women's diaries and
letters, art, advertising, fiction and etiquette guides, Women,
Travel and Identity considers the journey's impact upon
understandings of female identity, definitions of femininity,
modernity, glamour, class, travel, tourism, leisure and sexual
opportunity during this period. It explores women's relationship
with train and ship technology; cultural understandings of the
journey; public expectations of women journeyers; how women
journeyed in practice: their use of journey space, sociability with
both Western and 'Other' non-Western journeyers, experience of
love, sex and danger during the journey; and how women fashioned a
journeyer identity which fused their existing domestic identities
with new journey identities such as the journey chronicler. The
journey is revealed to be an experience of sociability as much as
mobility, dominated by ideas of respectability and reputation,
class, power, vision and observation and home as well as the
foreign and new.
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