Marianne North's Travel Writing: Every Step a Fresh Picture
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Kew's newest book focusing on Marianne North offers fresh insight into the pioneering traveller and artist through excerpts from her personal correspondence, autobiographical notes and pen sketches sent to friends.
Marianne North’s Travel Writing offers fresh insight into the pioneering traveller and artist Marianne North (1830–1890). Excerpts from her personal correspondence and passages from her published autobiography combine to produce a vivid first-person account revealing her interests, opinions and experiences, along with all the pleasures and frustrations of prolonged overseas travel. Richly illustrated with facsimiles of letters and pen sketches she sent to friends, and reproductions of her celebrated oil paintings.
The book relays pertinent details about North’s life and considers her varied attitudes towards the people she met and the places she visited, including what her writings and paintings may suggest about her attitudes to empire and colonialism. The chapter sequence is chronological (from North America to Chile); with multiple trips to the same country grouped together, with the relevant year indicated. A final chapter will cover her English homes, particularly her London flat, which she felt was ‘more like home than any other’.
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Media and Reviews:
- Amelia Fox, Actress and Kew Ambassador
- The English Garden Magazine, November 2023
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