Women Travelers

Biographies almost always state the place of birth, of residence, and of death. Most women's lives traditionally were limited as to travel except in crises such as war or exile (male relatives might be soldiers, sailors, diplomats, traders, explorers). But with literacy and improved means of travel, women could become notable as travelers, particularly through what they wrote about their travels. Currently, 132 women form a cohort of the type "traveler, travel writer," including Frances Trollope, the center of one of our sample corpora (like Lola Montez). These women travelers differ widely by era, occupation (not all were writing for a living), social rank, where they traveled, and so on.

159 total

• Jessie Ackerman
  • Gender: Female
• Mary Akeley
  • Gender: Female
• Ethel Alec-Tweedie
  • Gender: Female
• Olympe Audouard
  • Gender: Female
• Aulnoy
  • Gender: Female
• Marianne Baillie
  • Gender: Female
• Florence Baker
  • Gender: Female
• Anne Baltimore
  • Gender: Female
• Baluseck
  • Gender: Female
• Jeanne Baret
  • Gender: Female
• Mary Anne Barker
  • Gender: Female
• James Barry
  • Gender: Transgender
• Edna Baxter
  • Gender: Female
• Emily Beaufort
  • Gender: Female
• Aphra Behn
  • Gender: Female
• Cristina Belgiojoso
  • Gender: Female
• Gertrude Bell
  • Gender: Female
• Stella Benson
  • Gender: Female
• Matilda Betham-Edwards
  • Gender: Female
• Isabella Bird
  • Gender: Female
• Gertrude Blair
  • Gender: Female
• Anne Blunt
  • Gender: Female
• Louise Boyd
  • Gender: Female
• Anna Brassey
  • Gender: Female
• F. Bridges
  • Gender: Female
• Henriette Browne
  • Gender: Female
• Isabel Burton
  • Gender: Female
• Lady Charlotte Bury
  • Gender: Female
• Frances Calderón de la Barca
  • Gender: Female
• Charlotte Canning
  • Gender: Female
• Adriana Capellen
  • Gender: Female
• Caroline of Brunswick
  • Gender: Female
• Ellen Clacy
  • Gender: Female
• Claire Clairmont
  • Gender: Female
• Clara Clement Waters
  • Gender: Female
• Louisa Costello
  • Gender: Female
• Elizabeth Craven
  • Gender: Female
• Ellen Crisp
  • Gender: Female
• May Crommelin
  • Gender: Female
• Georgiana Damer
  • Gender: Female
• Henriette d'Angeville
  • Gender: Female
• Catherine Dashkov
  • Gender: Female
• Léonie d'Aunet
  • Gender: Female
• Rosamond Davenport Hill
  • Gender: Female
• Florence Davenport Hill
  • Gender: Female
• Alexandra David-Néel
  • Gender: Female
• Catherine de Bourboulon
  • Gender: Female
• Jane Dieulafoy
  • Gender: Female
• Jane Digby
  • Gender: Female
• Florence Dixie
  • Gender: Female
• Duffus Hardy
  • Gender: Female
• Isabelle Eberhardt
  • Gender: Female
• Emily Eden
  • Gender: Female
• Amelia Edwards
  • Gender: Female
• Frances Elliot
  • Gender: Female
• Anne Elwood
  • Gender: Female
• Anna Falconbridge
  • Gender: Female
• Isabella Fane
  • Gender: Female
• Eliza Fay
  • Gender: Female
• Ève Félinska
  • Gender: Female
• Gabrielle Festing
  • Gender: Female
• Rosita Forbes
  • Gender: Female
• Anna Forbes
  • Gender: Female
• Elizabeth Fox
  • Gender: Female
• Rose Freycinet
  • Gender: Female
• Nina Gage
  • Gender: Female
• Jack Garland
  • Gender: Female
• Louise Gerding
  • Gender: Female
• Isabella Godon des Odonais
  • Gender: Female
• Constance Gordon-Cumming
  • Gender: Female
• Maria Graham
  • Gender: Female
• Isabel Gunn
  • Gender: Female
• Ida Hahn-Hahn
  • Gender: Female
• Hariot Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood
  • Gender: Female
• Letitia Hargrave
  • Gender: Female
• Eloise Hibbert
  • Gender: Female
• Adèle Hommaire de Hell
  • Gender: Female
• Laurence Hope
  • Gender: Female
• Frances Hopkins
  • Gender: Female
• Houstoun
  • Gender: Female
• E. Humphrey
  • Gender: Female
• Elizabeth Inchbald
  • Gender: Female
• Emily Innes
  • Gender: Female
• Anna Jameson
  • Gender: Female
• Fanny Kemble
  • Gender: Female
• Mary Kingsley
  • Gender: Female
• Sarah Knight
  • Gender: Female
• Lady Florentia Sale
  • Gender: Female
• Lady Franklin
  • Gender: Female
• Lady Hester Stanhope
  • Gender: Female
• Sydney, Lady Morgan
  • Gender: Female
• Ellen La Motte
  • Gender: Female
• Elizabeth Le Blond
  • Gender: Female
• Anna Leonowens
  • Gender: Female
• Delarivier Manley
  • Gender: Female
• Jeannie Manson Boggie
  • Gender: Female
• Kate Marsden
  • Gender: Female
• Harriet Martineau
  • Gender: Female
• Nina Mazuchelli
  • Gender: Female
• McQuoid
  • Gender: Female
• Louisa Meredith
  • Gender: Female
• Maria Merian
  • Gender: Female
• Julie Mist
  • Gender: Female
• Bianca Mojon
  • Gender: Female
• Mary Montagu
  • Gender: Female
• Susanna Moodie
  • Gender: Female
• Louise Moulton
  • Gender: Female
• Mary Neale
  • Gender: Female
• Marianne North
  • Gender: Female
• Amelia Opie
  • Gender: Female
• Julia Pardoe
  • Gender: Female
• Mary Parker
  • Gender: Female
• Fanny Parks
  • Gender: Female
• Lydie Paschkoff
  • Gender: Female
• Abby Patton
  • Gender: Female
• Katherine Petherick
  • Gender: Female
• Ida Pfeiffer
  • Gender: Female
• Catherine Phillips
  • Gender: Female
• Ellen Pigeon
  • Gender: Female
• Anna Pigeon
  • Gender: Female
• Sophia Poole
  • Gender: Female
• Nancy Prince
  • Gender: Female
• Elizabeth Rawlinson
  • Gender: Female
• Virgina Reed
  • Gender: Female
• Susie Rijnhart
  • Gender: Female
• Emma Roberts
  • Gender: Female
• Isabella Romer
  • Gender: Female
• Martha Routh
  • Gender: Female
• Anne Royall
  • Gender: Female
• Janet Schaw
  • Gender: Female
• Johanna Schopenhauer
  • Gender: Female
• Mary Seacole
  • Gender: Female
• Carla Serena
  • Gender: Female
• Grace Seton
  • Gender: Female
• Mary Shelley
  • Gender: Female
• Clare Sheridan
  • Gender: Female
• Kate Simon
  • Gender: Female
• Jane Simpson
  • Gender: Female
• Willie Smith
  • Gender: Female
• Susan Sontag
  • Gender: Female
• Hebe Spaull
  • Gender: Female
• Mariana Starke
  • Gender: Female
• Annie Starke
  • Gender: Female
• Emmeline Stuart-Wortley
  • Gender: Female
• Valentina Tereshkova
  • Gender: Female
• Alexandrine Tinné
  • Gender: Female
• Catharine Traill
  • Gender: Female
• Sophie Trébuchet
  • Gender: Female
• Flora Tristan
  • Gender: Female
• Frances Trollope
  • Gender: Female
• Sarah Turnock
  • Gender: Female
• Marie Ujfalvy-Bourbon
  • Gender: Female
• Frances Vane, Marchioness of Londonderry
  • Gender: Female
• Lucy Walker
  • Gender: Female
• Edith Wharton
  • Gender: Female
• Mary White
  • Gender: Female
• Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Gender: Female
• Mary Woodstock
  • Gender: Female
• Frances Wright
  • Gender: Female

Types

This cohort shares 101 person types:

• Abolitionist
• Activist
• Activist, Women's Rights
• Adventure, physical feat or survival
• Adventuress, self-promoting entrepreneur
• American, African
• American, Latin
• American (US)
• Artist, illustrator
• Artist, painter
• Artist, sculptor
• Athlete
• Austrian
• Author or presenter
• Aviator
• Baroness
• Businesswoman
• Canadian
• Celebrity for other than performance
• Colonial
• Composer
• Cross-dresser
• Daughter of notable man
• Daughter of notable woman
• Designer
• Divorced or separated
• Dutch
• Editor or publisher
• Educational founder, schoolmistress
• Educator, teacher
• English
• Entrepreneur
• Expatriated, exiled person
• Financial crisis or bankruptcy
• French
• Heiress
• Historian
• Irish
• Italian
• Journalist
• Learning, sciences
• Lesbian
• Lover of notable woman
• Medicine, doctor
• Medicine, nurse
• Medieval
• Member of committee or club
• Member of local society
• Military
• Missionary
• Model of faith, piety
• Model of family life, motherhood
• Mother of notable man
• Mother of notable woman
• Mother who has lost a child
• Nun
• Patron of literature or art
• Performer, actress
• Performer, musician
• Performer, singer
• Philanthropist
• Philosopher
• Pioneer
• Politician
• Preacher
• Reformer, education
• Reformer, political
• Role in revolution
• Royalty
• Russian
• Salonniere
• Scholar of literatures, classics
• Scientist
• Scottish
• Sexual agency, transgression (hetero)
• Sexual agency, transgression (homo)
• Single mother
• Single woman, spinster, unmarried
• Social scientist, theorist
• Social worker
• Society or High Rank
• Soldier
• Speaker, Lecturer, Public Reader
• Spy
• Suffragette
• Temperance worker
• Traveler, travel writer
• Victim of injustice
• Widow
• Wife of notable man
• Wife with Great Influence on Husband
• Writer
• Writer, diarist
• Writer, Epistolary
• Writer for children
• Writer, hymns
• Writer, Nonfiction
• Writer, Novel
• Writer, Plays
• Writer, Poetry
• Writer, Short fiction