Description: Drawing upon sketches, paintings, and photographs, Intrepid Women is a groundbreaking study that examines the art that women produced while travelling, as well as the circumstances that brought these artists - both amateurs and professionals - far beyond the reaches of the traditional Grand Tour.
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'Victorian and gender studies will benefit from this collection of new insights into the lives, actions and art of these intrepid women.' The Art Book
'Intrepid Women addresses themes that are currently at the forefront of scholarship, including tourism and the extended Grand Tour, travel writing, imperialism and colonialism, home and displacement and cross-cultural experiences... The diversity of these essays and the wider issues they touch on make for a stimulating read.' Women's History Magazine