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 Arabian desert , purchasing Arabian horses 

•  adapt to rough conditions