Servants Abroad - Travel Journals By British Working People, 1765-1798

Servants Abroad presents the journals of four British domestic servants who travelled to continental Europe in the eighteenth century. With a full introduction, these texts overturn the standard view of the 'Grand Tour' by revealing the experiences and impressions of the majority who travelled in service.

Sommario

• List of Maps


• List of Figures


• Abbreviations


• Acknowledgements


• Introduction


• Servants Abroad: Who, and How Many?


• Sources for Travelling Servants


• Travel Journals by Servants


• The Evidence of Servants' Travel Journals


• Note on Editorial Method


• Thomas Addison


• Introduction


• Journal


• Edmund Dewes


• Introduction


• Journal


• James Thoburn


• Introduction


• Journal


• Ann Scafe


• Introduction


• Journal


• Bibliography


• Index

Info autore

Richard Ansell is a postdoctoral researcher at Birkbeck, University of London, interested in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century travel. He is the author of Complete Gentlemen: Educational Travel and Family Strategy, 1650-1750 (British Academy/OUP, 2022) and several articles and book chapters on the social and cultural history of travel. He studied at Selwyn College, Cambridge, Brown University and Hertford College, Oxford, and held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Leicester. At Birkbeck, he is currently a researcher on the Leverhulme project 'Written Worlds: Non-Elite Writing in Seventeenth-Century England'.

Riassunto

Servants Abroad presents the journals of four British domestic servants who travelled to continental Europe in the eighteenth century. With a full introduction, these texts overturn the standard view of the 'Grand Tour' by revealing the experiences and impressions of the majority who travelled in service.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Richard (Birkbeck Ansell
• Con la collaborazione di: Richard Ansell (Editore), Richard (Birkbeck Ansell (Editore)
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 07.11.2024
• EAN: 9780197267806
• ISBN: 978-0-19-726780-6
• Pagine: 284
• Serie: Records of Social and Economic History
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Opere generiche, enciclopedie; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Historiography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Historiography, British & Irish history, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Slavery and abolition of slavery