Reading the Bibliographies of the Women’s Rest Tour Association: Cultural Travel in the Long Nineteenth Century
The Boston-based Women’s Rest Tour Association provided a carefully selected reading list for its “literary pilgrims” from its founding in the 1890s into the twentieth century. As an organization designed to support educated American women traveling on a budget, the WRTA provided members with a rang...
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| Language: | English |
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Association Française d'Etudes Américaines
2019-09-01
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| Series: | Transatlantica |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/12672 |
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| Summary: | The Boston-based Women’s Rest Tour Association provided a carefully selected reading list for its “literary pilgrims” from its founding in the 1890s into the twentieth century. As an organization designed to support educated American women traveling on a budget, the WRTA provided members with a range of information to facilitate travel, including a handbook containing two lengthy bibliographies. These bibliographies expose a duality within the organization that balances a progressive feminism with a deep-seated cultural and social conservatism. They exhibit strong support for women writers and educational reading as a tool for personal empowerment at the same time that they show a commitment to the cultural authority of Boston and the British Isles and reveal a notable degree of class bias and ethnic prejudice. |
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| ISSN: | 1765-2766 |