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Women on the Grand Tour

For the most part the Grand Tour was associated with young male English aristocrats, but this wasn't always the case. ^[1] Some English women, like Mary Wollstonecraft or Lady Elizabeth Holland, did Grand Tours of their own. ^[2] Also some non-English women like Friederike Brun went on Grand Tours. ^[3] Part of the reason of why most women didn't go on Grand Tours is that very few men would be interested in a wife more acculturate than them. ^[4] ^[5]

Differences between Women's and Men's Grand Tours

Even if travelling wasn't supposed to be part of women's education^[6], many women were motivated to pursue their travels both by a need for independence and a desire to gain knowledge^[7], as witnessed by Wollstonecraft’s letters. ^[8] Other than their dissatisfaction with their condition at home, another motive for women’s travels was curiosity. ^[9] Then, women’s tours often differed from typical Grand Tours: both in length, with some travellers living for long period of times in the foreign country, like Lady Mary Coke who lived in France, and in destinations, with travellers showing interest in the natural landscape of the Alps, that were considered an obstacle by previous travellers.^[10]

Women's Travel Writings

Like men, women often wrote during their travels and many letters and travel journals have been preserved. ^[11] An intimate perspective is provided by the diary of Izabela Czartoryska, a Polish princess who accompanied her son in his Grand Tour and was able to adapt the travel to her interests, learning English and music. ^[12] In many cases women's travel writings differed from men’s, because they were generally not meant for publication and they contain less artificial accounts of their travels. ^[13] There are exceptions to this, like Hester Piozzi, a professional traveller and writer, who published her diary, revisited and adapted for the public, in 1789 with the title Observations and Reflections.^[14] Reading women's travel writings some scholars have suggested that due to their subaltern state in English society women had a more sympathetic attitude than men towards the travellees, but still their judgments on foreign customs were very different.^[15]

References

^ Zuelow, Eric G. E. (2016). "Beginnings. The Grand Tour". A History of Modern Tourism. London: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 14–29: 16. ISBN 9780230369641.
^ Zuelow, Eric G. E. (2016). "Beginnings. The Grand Tour". A History of Modern Tourism. London: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 14–29: 16. ISBN 9780230369641.
^ Baumgartner, Karin (2015). "Packaging the Grand Tour: German Women Authors Write Italy, 1791–1874". Women in German Yearbook. 31. University of Nebraska Press: 2. JSTOR 10.5250/womgeryearbook.31.2015.0001.
^ Zuelow, Eric G. E. (2016). "Beginnings. The Grand Tour". A History of Modern Tourism. London: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 14–29: 27. ISBN 9780230369641.
^ Dolan, Brian (2001). Ladies of the Grand Tour: British Women in Pursuit of Enlightenment and Adventure in Eighteenth-Century Europe. New York: HarperCollins Publishers. p. 57.
^ Dolan, Brian (2001). Ladies of the Grand Tour: British Women in Pursuit of Enlightenment and Adventure in Eighteenth-Century Europe. New York: HarperCollins Publishers. p. 7.
^ Dolan, Brian (2001). Ladies of the Grand Tour: British Women in Pursuit of Enlightenment and Adventure in Eighteenth-Century Europe. New York: HarperCollins Publishers. p. 9.
^ Dolan, Brian (2001). Ladies of the Grand Tour: British Women in Pursuit of Enlightenment and Adventure in Eighteenth-Century Europe. New York: HarperCollins Publishers. p. 59.
^ Geurts, Anna P.H. (2020). "Gender, Curiosity, and the Grand Tour: Late-Eighteenth-Century British Travel Writing". Journeys. 21 (2): 1–23: 2. Retrieved 2025-05-01.
^ Geurts, Anna P.H. (2020). "Gender, Curiosity, and the Grand Tour: Late-Eighteenth-Century British Travel Writing". Journeys. 21 (2): 1–23: 9. Retrieved 2025-05-01.
^ Baumgartner, Karin (2015). "Packaging the Grand Tour: German Women Authors Write Italy, 1791–1874". Women in German Yearbook. 31. University of Nebraska Press: 4. JSTOR 10.5250/womgeryearbook.31.2015.0001.
^ Devitt Tremblay, Maeve (2018). "The Princess and the Dwarf: Polish Perspectives on Collecting and the Grand Tour". Journal for Eighteenth‐Century Studies. 41 (1): 25–42: 32.
^ Devitt Tremblay, Maeve (2018). "The Princess and the Dwarf: Polish Perspectives on Collecting and the Grand Tour". Journal for Eighteenth‐Century Studies. 41 (1): 25–42: 33.
^ Dolan, Brian (2001). Ladies of the Grand Tour: British Women in Pursuit of Enlightenment and Adventure in Eighteenth-Century Europe. New York: HarperCollins Publishers. p. 280.
^ Geurts, Anna P.H. (2020). "Gender, Curiosity, and the Grand Tour: Late-Eighteenth-Century British Travel Writing". Journeys. 21 (2): 1–23: 15. Retrieved 2025-05-01.

[1] Zuelow, Eric G. E. (2016). "Beginnings. The Grand Tour". A History of Modern Tourism. London: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 14–29: 16. ISBN 9780230369641.

[2] Zuelow, Eric G. E. (2016). "Beginnings. The Grand Tour". A History of Modern Tourism. London: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 14–29: 16. ISBN 9780230369641.

[3] Baumgartner, Karin (2015). "Packaging the Grand Tour: German Women Authors Write Italy, 1791–1874". Women in German Yearbook. 31. University of Nebraska Press: 2. JSTOR 10.5250/womgeryearbook.31.2015.0001.

[4] Zuelow, Eric G. E. (2016). "Beginnings. The Grand Tour". A History of Modern Tourism. London: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 14–29: 27. ISBN 9780230369641.

[5] Dolan, Brian (2001). Ladies of the Grand Tour: British Women in Pursuit of Enlightenment and Adventure in Eighteenth-Century Europe. New York: HarperCollins Publishers. p. 57.

[6] Dolan, Brian (2001). Ladies of the Grand Tour: British Women in Pursuit of Enlightenment and Adventure in Eighteenth-Century Europe. New York: HarperCollins Publishers. p. 7.

[7] Dolan, Brian (2001). Ladies of the Grand Tour: British Women in Pursuit of Enlightenment and Adventure in Eighteenth-Century Europe. New York: HarperCollins Publishers. p. 9.

[8] Dolan, Brian (2001). Ladies of the Grand Tour: British Women in Pursuit of Enlightenment and Adventure in Eighteenth-Century Europe. New York: HarperCollins Publishers. p. 59.

[9] Geurts, Anna P.H. (2020). "Gender, Curiosity, and the Grand Tour: Late-Eighteenth-Century British Travel Writing". Journeys. 21 (2): 1–23: 2. Retrieved 2025-05-01.

[10] Geurts, Anna P.H. (2020). "Gender, Curiosity, and the Grand Tour: Late-Eighteenth-Century British Travel Writing". Journeys. 21 (2): 1–23: 9. Retrieved 2025-05-01.

[11] Baumgartner, Karin (2015). "Packaging the Grand Tour: German Women Authors Write Italy, 1791–1874". Women in German Yearbook. 31. University of Nebraska Press: 4. JSTOR 10.5250/womgeryearbook.31.2015.0001.

[12] Devitt Tremblay, Maeve (2018). "The Princess and the Dwarf: Polish Perspectives on Collecting and the Grand Tour". Journal for Eighteenth‐Century Studies. 41 (1): 25–42: 32.

[13] Devitt Tremblay, Maeve (2018). "The Princess and the Dwarf: Polish Perspectives on Collecting and the Grand Tour". Journal for Eighteenth‐Century Studies. 41 (1): 25–42: 33.

[14] Dolan, Brian (2001). Ladies of the Grand Tour: British Women in Pursuit of Enlightenment and Adventure in Eighteenth-Century Europe. New York: HarperCollins Publishers. p. 280.

[15] Geurts, Anna P.H. (2020). "Gender, Curiosity, and the Grand Tour: Late-Eighteenth-Century British Travel Writing". Journeys. 21 (2): 1–23: 15. Retrieved 2025-05-01.

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