| Evidence: | 'as with history, women use their reading of travels to interrogate an androcentric concept of heroism. Elizabeth Montagu felt "surfeited" with what she thought the pointless explorations of Cook or Bruce: "of what use is this discovery of the source of the Nile?"' |
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| Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Elizabeth Montagu |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | 2 Oct 1718 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Writer / bluestocking |
| Religion: | unknown |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | James Bruce |
| Title: | Travels to discover the source of the Nile, in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 and 1773... |
| Genre: | Geography / Travel |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 6170 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Jacqueline Pearson | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Women's Reading in Britain, 1750-1835. A dangerous recreation | |
| Place of Publication: | Cambridge | |
| Date of Publication: | 1999 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 56 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Jacqueline Pearson, Women's Reading in Britain, 1750-1835. A dangerous recreation (Cambridge, 1999), p. 56, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=6170, accessed: 02 December 2023 | |
| See Reginald Blunt (ed). Mrs Montagu, 'Queen of the blues': her letters and friendships from 1762-1800 (1923), Vol II, pp. 31, 251. |
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