UNSUITABLE FOR LADIES Quotes

“The struggle for women travellers to be considered anything worthier than eccentric, self-deluded, and utterly dotty had been going on for some time, as I mentioned in my Introduction. Ditties like this did not help, of course, and nor did Lady Helen Dufferin do her sex any favours in 1863 by creating the Honourable Impulsia Gushington, a tourist (and diarist) of embarrassing vigour:”
― Jane Robinson, Unsuitable for Ladies: An Anthology of Women Travellers