Article: Woman's progress: Sophie La Roche's travelogues 1787-1788.

Sophie La Roche (1730-1807) was the first well-known German woman to publish travelogues. There were illustrious French and English predecessors, most notably Lady Mary Wortley Montagu whose Turkish Embassy Letters (1763) are justly celebrated to this day. In the eighteenth century, travel literature was enjoying its golden age, but travelogues by women were still conspicuous. Women not only brought a different perspective to the experience and descriptions of foreign lands, but the very act of traveling and writing became a significant aspect of their progress toward emancipation.(1) Sophie La Roche knew Lady Mary's letters well; she devoted sixteen pages in her journal ...

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