Database of Women’s Travel Writing, 1780-1840
We are pleased to announce an important new resource: the Database of Women’s Travel Writing (DWTW). DWTW provides full and accurate bibliographical records for nearly 200 titles, all the known books of travel published in Britain and Ireland by women between 1780 and 1840.
The database is part of a larger database project, based in the University of Wolverhampton’s Centre for Transnational and Transcultural Research, which will include all travel books published in this period, and this pilot has benefitted from a research development grant from the University’s Faculty of Arts.
Travel writing is here defined in terms of genre (narratives, guidebooks, illustrated letterpress plate books, topographical descriptions, and collections); witness (accounts derived from actual tours); and place of publication (Britain and Ireland). While women contributed only around 4% of the total of such travel writings in the marketplace, the database charts the growing presence and professionalization of women travel writers in the nineteenth century.
You can search the database by combinations of author, title, date of publication, publisher, genre, and regional content. Text displays feature accurate transcriptions of title pages from inspected copies; full bibliographical data including publisher imprints and printer colophons; details of epigraphs, dedications, subscriber lists, and reviews; and links to short author biographies, many based on original research.
Visit DWTW at: http://www.wlv.ac.uk/btw
Project updates, including notices of amendments and information on featured travel writers, will be posted on the Centre blog: http://transculturewolves.wordpress.com
For more information, please contact:
Dr Benjamin Colbert
Centre for Transnational and Transcultural Research (CTTR)
Faculty of Arts
University of Wolverhampton
Wulfruna Street
WV1 1LY
United Kingdom
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