British Women's Travel to Greece, 1840-1914 - Travels in the Palimpsest

Beginning with the publication of the first Murray guidebook to Greece in 1840 and ending with Virginia Woolf''s journey to Athens, Mahn offers a genealogy of British women''s travel literature about Greece. Her fascinating and historically contextualized study examines first-hand accounts by archaeologists, ethnographers, journalists and tourists as she charts women''s renderings of Modern Greece through a series of discursive lenses.