Women travellers at fins de siecles. (comparing Victorian and modern female travellers from the...

Women of the Victorian era traveled most often to escape the strict limitations of their patriarchal society where even the clothing was bulky and restricting. Modern female travelers reveal a need for self-discovery during their trips rather than a need to simply escape their society.

I would like to argue that an important motivation for women to travel abroad a century ago - that of escaping the restrictive conventions of patriachial societies - no longer applies. in the past, the few women who left their European or North American homes to travel to "exotic" and possibly d