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Women Travellers |
20 July 2004 |
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How did they cope before the age of mass travel?
At the National Portrait Gallery in London there are pictures of sixty women who have pushed the boundaries of travel over the last three centuries.
Amanda Platell, herself, a seasoned traveller, finds out how much more difficult it was for women at that time to live in Turkey or trek through the Himalayas. She even tries on a corset to see whether she would have survived in the heat with a 24 inch waist! She’s joined by the curator, Clare Gittings, and the writer Dea Birkett who has a written a book for the exhibition.
Dea Birkett's book Off the Beaten Track: Three Centuries of Women Travellers is published by National Portrait Gallery, ISBN185514526X
NPG: Off The Beaten Track
BBC History: Women's History
Woman's Hour History Timeline: Freya StarkDisclaimer
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