Jane Robinson (1) (1959–)
Autor de Unsuitable for Ladies: An Anthology of Women Travellers
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Sobre El Autor
Jane Robinson is a writer and lecturer who specializes in history witnessed by women
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1959
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- UK
- País (para mapa)
- UK
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
- Lugares de residencia
- Oxfordshire, England, UK
- Educación
- Oxford University (Somerville College)
- Ocupaciones
- editor
bookseller
author - Organizaciones
- Fellow, Royal Geographical Society
Society of Authors
Writers in Oxford - Biografía breve
- Born in 1959 in Edinburgh, Jane Robinson read English at Somerville College, Oxford before beginning her career as an antiquarian book seller. She now divides her time between writing books about pioneering women in history and various curatorial duties at museums and archives.
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 12
- También por
- 1
- Miembros
- 811
- Popularidad
- #31,469
- Valoración
- 3.9
- Reseñas
- 18
- ISBNs
- 51
All in all, I loved the writings of smart, courageous, and independent women. While most traveled with a purpose, (serving in the war was a popular excuse to go abroad), it was the women who traveled out of curiosity and leisure that fascinated me the most. Wealth was the great commodity and motivator in the days of opium pills and ether treatments.
Notable women included one woman who dreamed of riding an ostrich; another who felt that plain boiled locusts were the most palatable. Another woman was funny about bugs like fleas while another desired to be immune to scorpion venom. One woman worried about being seen as a woman while she traveled dressed as man. Another woman had a more pressing concern as she watched her horse fall over a cliff. Still another survived a bear attack. Yet another willingly joined her husband on a funeral pyre.
These were very different times. Imagine a time when it was acceptable for ladies to view battlefields of Waterloo and Crimea, with all of their bloodshed and death. Imagine wearing the elaborate and heavy diving equipment of 1910. Imagine watching a native receive a tattoo by rat or shark tooth.
In truth I think Robinson missed an opportunity to publish a really robust book. It would have been great to see maps of the time period these ladies traveled, illustrations of the fashions, and maybe some photographs or illustrated portraits of the more notable lady travelers.
Favorite women: Florence Nightingale saying her mind was out of breath; Myrtle Simpson trying to figure out how to travel with a newborn; the alias Honourable Impulsia Gushington; Barbara Toy naming her Landrover "Polyanna"; Robyn Davidson bringing her camels to the beach for the first time.… (más)