Homecomings: Victorian British women travel writers and revisions of domesticity
Journal: e-Publications@Marquette (Marquette University)
Year: 2014

Homecomings argues that women's travel writing must be read as an important source of critiques of Victorian domestic ideology. I have chosen four writers-- Frances Trollope (1779-1863), Mary Carpenter (1807-1877), Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), and Fanny Kemble (1809-1893)--who represent a range of motives for travel, experiences of domesticity and travel, and revisions of domesticity in light of travel. What they share in common is that travel changed their perceptions of the homes they cam