travelwriting

R.B. & Gabriela Cunninghame Graham: International Travel, Domestic Reality
28 November, University of Glasgow – free

A symposium exploring the cultural & political significance of Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham’s travels & travel-writing; the question of his wife Gabriela’s identity & his collusion in the deception at its heart; his writing about women & the equality of the sexes.

https://wegottickets.com/event/677550

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #travel #travelwriting #equality

#OTD, 7 Aug, 1879, Robert Louis Stevenson boarded the SS Devonia to make the ten-day passage from Greenock to New York to pursue his thwarted relationship with Fanny Osbourne. In THE AMATEUR EMIGRANT he gives a vivid, sharp, & engaging account of his (impoverished) travels to & in America – read the first 5 chapters free 👇

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https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/free-publications/the_amateur_emigrant/

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #travelwriting #RobertLouisStevenson #emigration

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