Using women's letters, diaries and memoirs, as well as contemporary art, fiction, advertising and etiquette guides, this book explores their experiences as journey consumers in an age of mass mobility, an experience that has remained largely hidden despite the journey being the most universal travel experience of the period. It examines women's relationship with train and ship technology; their sociability with other journeyers, both male, female, Western and 'Other'; their use of journey space; their experiences of love, sex and danger during these journeys; and their impact on women's identities as well as cultural understandings and popular expectations of the journey and women journeyers. 

 

It explores the impact of the journey on definitions of femininity, modernity, glamour, class, travel, tourism, leisure and sexual opportunity and threat in this era of dramatic social, cultural and technological change. It will interest academics, postgraduates and undergraduates studying women's and gender history; travel, transport and mobility studies; Victorian, cultural and leisure history; and postcolonial and feminist studies, as well as enthusiasts of an era which featured some of the most iconic transport ever built, such as the Orient Express and the Titanic.