Emily Lowe
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Helen Emily Lowe(died 21 March 1882 inTorquay) was a Britishtravel writer.Lowe made travels toScandinaviaand southern Europe together with her mother. Her experiences were published in two books:Unprotected Females in Norway, or the Pleasantest Way of Travelling There, Passing through Denmark and Sweden.1857, G. Routledge & Co. andUnprotected Females in Sicily, Calabria and on the Top of Mount Aetna.1859, G. Routledge & Co.
When travelling, Lowe intentionally brought a minimum of luggage. In her first book she writes: “The only use of a gentleman in travelling is to look after the luggage, and we take care to have no luggage.”[1]Lowe appears, sometimes as Emily and sometimes as Helen, in several essays and books on women and travelling in the 19th century, such as:
- Arcara, Stefania. "The Serpent and the Dove: Emily Lowe, an Unprotected Victorian Traveller in No Need of Protection."Journal of Gender Studies,Vol. 3, Issue 1 1994.
- McVicker, Mary F. 2008.Women Adventurers, 1750-1900. A Biographical Dictionary.McFarland & Co, Inc. Jefferson, North Carolina and London.
- Balducci, Temma & Heather Belnap Jensen. (Ed.) 2014.Women, Femininity and Public Space in European Visual Culture 1789-1914.Ashgate Publ. Ltd.: Farnham.
- Saunders, Clare Broome. (Ed.) 2014.Women, Travel Writing, and Truth.Routledge; Taylor & Francis Group.
- Mulen, Richard & James Munson. 2009.The Smell of the Continent: the British Discover Europe.Pan Books.
- McFadden, Margaret H. 1999.Golden Cables of Sympathy: the Transatlantic Sources of Nineteenth-Century Feminism.The University Press of Kentucky.
- Reilly, Catherine W. 2000.Mid-Victorian Poetry 1860-1879.Mansell.
- Walchester, Kathryn. 2014.Gamle Norge and Nineteenth-Century British Women Travellers in Norway.Anthem Press: London.
References
[edit]- ^Robinson, Jane (2001).Unsuitable for Ladies: An Anthology of Women Travellers.Oxford University Press. p. 11.ISBN9780192802019.