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To: Rambi who wrote (59200)	3/1/2001 8:01:53 AM
From: Crocodile	Respond to of 71178

No wonder Lady Chatterly messed around. Yes, well, that is quite true, except that Lady Chatterly also comes to something of an undesirable "end"... having lost her position within society due to her indiscretion. Likewise, Emma ends up poisoning herself with arsenic in Madame Bovary.... and what ever happened to Tess?? It seems to me that Hardy was big on drownings...so perhaps that's how it ended... I forget. But you are quite right.... the travel journal, and the act of travel, itself, often allowed women to step outside of the boundaries of their own society. This is most often seen in cases where women travelled alone with porters, or in the company of other women. In these instances, they often wore disguises, dressed in men's clothes, travelled by camelback, and ventured into all manner or situations. The interesting part about these female adventurers is that they generally had an accepted "mission". Mary Kingsley journeyed into the Congo to collect botanical specimens....always a most excellent and honorable excuse for travel... while others travelled to study art or history, or work as missionaries or teachers. BTW, many of these travel journals are quite wonderful to read and have a very different "feel" to them when compared to the journals kept by men travelling in the same regions... the focus of observation often being more diverse and detailed from an anthropological or sociological standpoint.