Tourists and Travellers: Women's Non-Fictional Writing About Scotland, 1770-1830

Hagglund (Research Fellow, Nottingham Trent University) looks at travel and travel writing in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, a period in which Scotland emerged as a full-fledged tourist destination. Looking at the writings of five women (Sarah Murray, Anne Grant, Dorothy Wordsworth, Sarah Hazlitt and the anonymous author of A Journey to the Highlands of Scotland), the author examines the ways in which changes in travel and in Scotland affected the ways in which women travelers wrote about their experiences. Hagglund also looks at the relationship of gender to travel writing. (Distributed in the U.S. by UTP Distribution.) Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Betty Hagglund is a Research Fellow on the 'Maria Graham: The Woman Writer and the Cultures of Travel, Science and Publishing in the early 19th century' project at Nottingham Trent University. She has published extensively on travel writing and women's writing of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She is the editor of three volumes of women's nineteenth-century travel writing about Italy published by Pickering and Chatto.