viii, 271 pages, <8> leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
Contents
Machine derived contents note: Acknowledgments -- 1. Travel and Travellers Tales -- (i). Antecedents -- 2. Travel and Status -- (ii). Adelaide Ironside: Painter in Rome -- 3. Travel and Aspirations 1890-1914 -- (iii). Annie Duncan: Factory Inspector in London -- 4. Travel and Independence -- (iv). Winifred James: Traveller and Travel Writer -- 5. Travel and War 1914-1945 -- (v). Doris Gentile and the making of life as 'something fantastique' -- 6. Travel and Reform -- (vi) The Adventures of Dora Birtle and Irene Saxby. -- 7. Travel and Politics in the 1930s -- (vii). Voyages and Ports -- 8. Discovery of the World 1870-1940 -- (viii). Stella Bowen's odyssey -- 9. Discovery of Self 1870-1940 -- (ix). Charmian Clift and Billian Bouras in Greece -- 10. Travel, the Coronation and Carnaby Street -- Bibliography
Summary
Illuminating account of Australian women's travel from the 1870's to the arrival of the Jumbo Jet
