Female Explorers: Women’s Scientific Travelling, 1750-1850
A One-day Interdisciplinary Seminar Nottingham Trent University to be held Saturday 3rd March 2012 Deadline : 20th November 2011 * It is often assumed, in both scholarly and popular accounts of travel and travel writing, that scientific travel and exploration was a male preserve until at least the late twentieth century. The same received wisdom, moreover, assumes that the many women travellers of earlier eras invariably travelled in a more desultory and dilettante fashion – as devotees of th…
Nottingham, RU (3 mars 2012)