Taking travel home: The souvenir culture of British women tourists, 1750-1830

In the late eighteenth—century, elite British women had an unprecedented opportunity to travel. Taking travel home uncovers the souvenir culture these women developed around the texts and objects they brought back with them to realise their ambitions in the arenas of connoisseurship, friendship and science.

Key characters include forty—three—year—old Hester Piozzi (Thrale), who honeymooned in Italy; thirty—one—year—old Anna Miller, who accompanied her husband on a Grand Tour; Dorothy Richard...