The fourteen chapters in this book examine various topics and contexts of travel writings on China, Japan and Southeast Asia.

Letters to her sister about the author's travel in Colorado, autumn and early winter 1873.

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In a much needed, balanced and comprehensive analysis, among other remarkable revelations, this book presents for the first time a vital key to understanding the organisation of Japan's society and the behaviour of its people.

This edited book provides a unique opportunity for international scholars to contribute to the exploration of liminality in the field of Anglo-American literature written by or about women between the Victorian period and the Second World ...

The essays are organized into three themes: representations of femininity, women as makers, and constructions of gender, and they consider examples of architecture, painting, woodblock prints and illustrated books, photography, and textiles ...

The legendary Victorian traveler's previously unpublished letters to her homebound sister.