Cover; Half-title page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Note on the Text; Introduction 'The paper globe': Women, Writing, and Travel in the Eighteenth Century; Chapter 1 'A very diligent curiosity': Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Embassy Letters; Chapter 2 'Wrecked on seas of ink': Publicity and Sovereignty of Taste in Lady Craven's Journey through the Crimea to Constantinople; Chapter 3 'Entre Nous': The Sociability of Feeling in Jane Vigor's Letters from a Lady ... in Russia.

Chapter 4 'No small Wonder to see myself in Print': Virtuous Commerce and Eliza Justice's Voyage to RussiaChapter 5 'My travels have been to the moon and the stars': Janet Schaw's Journal and Atlantic Sociability; Chapter 6 'Thorns and Thistles': Anna Maria Falconbridge's Two Voyages to the River Sierra Leone; Conclusion La 'Dame Pensive'; Bibliography; Index