Kathryn Walchester
Biographic Data
| ID | 5648038 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathryn Walchester |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathryn |
| FAMILY NAME | Walchester |
| SIGNATURE | WALCHESTER K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Liverpool John Moores University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4484-6860 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
‘I Took Every Possible Care to Have Them Well Preserved’
The final decades of the eighteenth century saw the significant expansion of botanical propagation and collections across the globe, both as an aesthetic corollary and to provide the underpinning resources for imperialism. The focus of this article is the development of the network between botanists in India and England in the 1790s through the correspondence between William Roxburgh (1751–1815), superintendent of the Botanical Garden in Calcutta…
“Many and Dreadful Disasters”
Our recent experiences of quarantine during the COVID-19 outbreak have exposed the vulnerability of poorer members of society and has highlighted their increased suffering during the period of restricted mobility. This article considers the way in which quarantine exacerbates inequalities from a historical perspective, looking at enforced periods of restricted travel and its impact on servants and lower-class British travelers of the eighteenth c…
Vertical travel
This introduction outlines the background of our special issue of Studies in Travel Writing, which emerged from reflections on travel and the travelogue in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. It details the impact of this global public health crisis on questions of mobility and foregrounds the confinement to which travellers have been subject. The introduction argues that such changes should not be confined to the hypercontemporary moment but n…
Working, travelling, and identity
The motivation for travel is central to its form and content. This article addresses an under-represented area of travel writing: the travel text that results from a journey undertaken for work purposes. By considering J. B. Priestley’s English Journey as a case-study, it argues that the text’s critical reception, at first disorientated and confused, and later dominated by historical and political readings, has resulted from Priestley’s emphasis …
The British Traveller and Dark Tourism in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Scandinavia and the Nordic Regions
The north has, since Classical times, been regarded as a place of darkness, horror, and even hell. “The journey northward is imagined as a journey into unimaginable barbarism”, notes Peter Davidson in his account of the Roman geographer Strabo (The idea of north. Reaktion, London, 2005). The connection between evil and the north pertained into the eighteenth century when travellers, such as Charles Boileau Elliott, were inspired to note the “deat…
A fisherman landing an unwieldy salmon”; The Alpine Guide and Female Mountaineer
Writing in her autobiography Day in, Day out of her first attempt at mountaineering in 1881, Elizabeth Le Blond admits: Never till that moment had I put on my own boots, and I was none too sure on
The servant as narrative vehicle in nineteenth-century travel texts about Norway and Iceland
By focusing on the representation of the travelling servant, on whom as Clifford (1997) acknowledges there is a paucity of evidence, this essay presents a contrapuntal reading of two nineteenth-century British travelogues, Letters from High Latitudes by Lord Dufferin (1857) and A Summer and Winter in Norway by Lady Diana Beauclerk (1868). Drawing from Edward Said’s reformulation of the musical term, the essay argues that servants contributed to t…
Every article of my dress was a wonder to them’
Travelling with the Masses; British Women Travellers in Late Nineteenth‐Century Norway and the “Anti‐Tourist”
A fisherman landing an unwieldy salmon”; The Alpine Guide and Female Mountaineer
Writing in her autobiography Day in, Day out of her first attempt at mountaineering in 1881, Elizabeth Le Blond admits: Never till that moment had I put on my own boots, and I was none too sure on
Every article of my dress was a wonder to them’
Travelling with the Masses; British Women Travellers in Late Nineteenth‐Century Norway and the “Anti‐Tourist”
Every article of my dress was a wonder to them’
The servant as narrative vehicle in nineteenth-century travel texts about Norway and Iceland
By focusing on the representation of the travelling servant, on whom as Clifford (1997) acknowledges there is a paucity of evidence, this essay presents a contrapuntal reading of two nineteenth-century British travelogues, Letters from High Latitudes by Lord Dufferin (1857) and A Summer and Winter in Norway by Lady Diana Beauclerk (1868). Drawing from Edward Said’s reformulation of the musical term, the essay argues that servants contributed to t…
The British Traveller and Dark Tourism in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Scandinavia and the Nordic Regions
The north has, since Classical times, been regarded as a place of darkness, horror, and even hell. “The journey northward is imagined as a journey into unimaginable barbarism”, notes Peter Davidson in his account of the Roman geographer Strabo (The idea of north. Reaktion, London, 2005). The connection between evil and the north pertained into the eighteenth century when travellers, such as Charles Boileau Elliott, were inspired to note the “deat…
A fisherman landing an unwieldy salmon”; The Alpine Guide and Female Mountaineer
Writing in her autobiography Day in, Day out of her first attempt at mountaineering in 1881, Elizabeth Le Blond admits: Never till that moment had I put on my own boots, and I was none too sure on
Working, travelling, and identity
The motivation for travel is central to its form and content. This article addresses an under-represented area of travel writing: the travel text that results from a journey undertaken for work purposes. By considering J. B. Priestley’s English Journey as a case-study, it argues that the text’s critical reception, at first disorientated and confused, and later dominated by historical and political readings, has resulted from Priestley’s emphasis …
“Many and Dreadful Disasters”
Our recent experiences of quarantine during the COVID-19 outbreak have exposed the vulnerability of poorer members of society and has highlighted their increased suffering during the period of restricted mobility. This article considers the way in which quarantine exacerbates inequalities from a historical perspective, looking at enforced periods of restricted travel and its impact on servants and lower-class British travelers of the eighteenth c…
Vertical travel
This introduction outlines the background of our special issue of Studies in Travel Writing, which emerged from reflections on travel and the travelogue in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. It details the impact of this global public health crisis on questions of mobility and foregrounds the confinement to which travellers have been subject. The introduction argues that such changes should not be confined to the hypercontemporary moment but n…
‘I Took Every Possible Care to Have Them Well Preserved’
The final decades of the eighteenth century saw the significant expansion of botanical propagation and collections across the globe, both as an aesthetic corollary and to provide the underpinning resources for imperialism. The focus of this article is the development of the network between botanists in India and England in the 1790s through the correspondence between William Roxburgh (1751–1815), superintendent of the Botanical Garden in Calcutta…
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