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The Eighteenth-Century Tourist Does Cambridge
Not the Grand Tourist, off (accompanied by his tutor or ‘bear-leader’) to sow his wild oats on the Continent and return loaded with art works and antiquities of all kinds to embellish the ancestral home, but the more modest traveller … Continue reading
Posted in Cambridge, History, Literary Studies, Printing and Publishing History, Travel and Exploration, Women's Writing
Tagged Addenbrooke's, Botanic Gardens, Cambridge, Cambridge University, Celia Fiennes, colleges, Great St Mary's church, Jane Austen, Round Church, Senate House, University Library
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Celia Fiennes, Traveller
This is the one-word description in the ODNB: I wonder if it is applied to any other seventeenth- or eighteenth-century women?
Posted in Cambridge, History, Literary Studies, Travel and Exploration, Women's Writing
Tagged Bath, Celia Fiennes, England, Harrogate, Kendal, London, William and Mary
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