British Women Travellers in the Long Nineteenth Century

Marilyn D. Button is a Professor of English at Lincoln University of Pennsylvania in the USA. She is co-editor of two books: The Foreign Woman in British Literature: Exotics, Aliens, and Outsiders (1999) and, most recently, The Victorian Case for Charity: Essays on Responses to English Poverty by the State, the Church and the Literati (2013).

Jessica A. Sheetz-Nguyen is an Emerita Professor of History at the University of Central Oklahoma and an Adjunct Professor of History at the University of Maryland Global Campus in the USA. She is the author of Victorian Women: Unwed Mothers and the London Foundling Hospital (2012) and co-editor of The Victorian Case for Charity: Essays on Responses to English Poverty by the State, the Church, and the Literati (2013).

Chapter 1: Introduction; Marilyn D. Button and Jessica A. Sheetz-Nguyen.- Part I. Women Travellers from the French Revolution to The Napoleonic Era.- Chapter 2: Hamilton's Wife and Nelson's Paramour: Emma, Lady Hamilton in Naples; Cheryl C. D. Hughes.- Chapter 3:  Breaking New Ground: The Italian Experience of Elizabeth Cavendish, Second Duchess of Devonshire; Ronald J. Weber.- Part II. Entrepreneurial Journalists in Emerging Italy.- Chapter 4: "My country women would rather hear": Hester Lynch Piozzi's Regendering of the Grand Tour; Thomas J. Prasch.- Chapter 5: Love, Dirt, and Superstition among the Ruins: Charlotte Eaton's Protestant View of Catholic Rome; Renée Jeanne Schlueter.- Chapter 6: Inventing the Travel Guide: Mariana Starke's Advice for the Independent Traveler; Nigel à Brassard.- Chapter 7: From 'Flying Visit' to Final Home: Mrs Trollope in Florence; Marilyn D. Button.- Part III. Literary Lights in Risorgimento Italy.- Chapter 8: Rambles in Il Bel Paese: Mary Shelley's Anglo-Italian Visioning; Renée Jeanne Schlueter.- Chapter 9: "I will write plain words to England": Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh; Lisa Angelella.- Chapter 10: Timebound and Timeless in Italy: Why Eliot Chose Florence for Romola; Marilyn D. Button.- Part IV. Inspired Social Activists.- Chapter 11: By Art and Spirit: Florence Nightingale's Transformation in Rome; Lauren M. Riepl and Jessica A. Sheetz-Nguyen.- Chapter 12: "Victory is not won simply by assertion of principles alone": Josephine Butler's Crusade in Italy; Jessica A. Sheetz-Nguyen.- Chapter 13: Exploring the 'Wild Zone': Amelia B. Edwards Travels the Italian Dolomites; Dona M. Cady.- Chapter 14: Conclusion; Marilyn D. Button and Jessica A. Sheetz-Nguyen.