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Women Travel Writers |
Monday 24 June 2002 |
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Tales from plucky Victorian women who set off for deepest Africa armed only with a starched blouse and some hairpins fascinated readers in the nineteenth century. Unchaperoned in unexplored territory, their adventures shocked their contemporaries.
Now a new anthology of women's travel writing aims to broaden our understanding of the female travel experience.
Sheila talks to Josie Dew, a renowned cyclist and author of The Sun in My Eyes and to Dr Shirley Foster, senior lecturer at the University of Sheffield and co-editor of An Anthology of Women Travel Writing.
Josie Dew, Sun in My Eyes, Time Warner Paperbacks; ISBN: 0751530182, £7.99
Shirley Foster (ed.), Sara Mills (ed.), Anthology of Women's Travel Writing, Manchester University Press; ISBN: 0719050189
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