Marianne North's Travel Writing: Every Step a Fresh Picture (Payne Michelle)(Pevná vazba)

A new collection of Marianne North's letters and travel writing. Marianne North's Travel Writing offers fresh insight into the pioneering traveler and artist Marianne North (1830-1890). Excerpts from her personal correspondence and passages from her published autobiography combine to produce a vivid first-person account revealing her interests, opinions, and experiences, along with all the pleasures and frustrations of prolonged overseas travel. Richly illustrated with facsimiles of letters and pen sketches she sent to friends, this book also features reproductions of her celebrated oil paintings. The book relays pertinent details about North's life and considers her varied attitudes towards the people she met and the places she visited, including what her writings and paintings may suggest about her attitudes to empire and colonialism. The chapter sequence is
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