The Travel Writings of Marguerite Blessington: The Most Gorgeous Lady on the Tour - Anthem Studies in Travel | Historical Travel Literature for Book Collectors & European History Enthusiasts
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This book derives from the conviction that Marguerite Blessington (1788–1849) merits scholarly attention as a travel writer, and thus offers the first detailed analysis of Blessington’s four travel books: ‘A Tour in The Isle of Wight, in the Autumn of 1820’ (1822), ‘Journal of a Tour through the Netherlands to Paris in 1821’ (1822), ‘The Idler in Italy’ (1839) and ‘The Idler in France’ (1841). It argues that travelling and travel writing provided Blessington with endless opportunities to reshape her public personae, demonstrating that her predilection for self-fashioning was related to the various tendencies in tourism and literature as well as the changing aesthetic and social trends in the first half of the nineteenth century.
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I just read the 1947 2nd edition of The Strange Life of Lady Blessington, which is an amazing example of cancel culture from the 1830s and she made her way despite idiots and opportunists more concerned with deflecting their own inadequacies than any sort of care or attention to what's really worthwhile, or even true. Blessington is an inspiration from the 19th century - an influencer and scholar, even if her travel books were the forte in which her intellect had to be channelled. Influence on Disraeli and many others. Tis book is an insight into the class system of yore - and its lessons for today.
