LADY ANNE BLUNT
LADY ANNE BLUNT Women travellers Many Victorian women found out that the ideal female could rise to the challenges of foreign experience and discover within herself the independence to survive . This was the case of Lady Anne Blunt (1837-1917), who traveled extensively in the Arabian desert with her husband, or of the women who emigrated to America or Australia with their families and had to adapt to rough conditions. Before the Victorian age —> Women didn't have the chance to travel = risky began to travel for personal and political reasons : to satisfy personal curiosities,to find freedom that they didn't have at home… Ladies who travel → upper class Most female travelers drew attention to European destinations → educational and scientific reasons few ladies traveled to Africa and the Middle East 1870s →who traveled in the ...