![]() ![]() ![]() Anne Louise Germaine de Stael, an outspoken intellectual and novelist. Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, prefers Italy, as does Mme. The wide range of personalities found in No Place for a Lady, show a common spirit, energy and endurance. ![]() The ladies are educated and self-confident, predominately British. Throughout their journeys, such women exhibit exceptional bravery and a willingness to endure inconvenience and discomfort for the sake of traveling. There are women in exile, those in search of a place where the fair sex will be treated with dignity rather than contempt, others avoiding the reality of their travails and seekers on religious pilgrimages. Covering the 17-19th Centuries, these women come either from a bored middle-class or are of the upper class, indulging their unremitting wanderlust. These women have one thing in common: an insatiable curiosity to see the world. In No Place for a Lady, the author has combined her definitive artistic style with a series of female adventures, travels undertaken by women drawn to broadening their cultural horizons from Russia to Africa to Japan. But Hodgson has established her own niche, mined her own particular vein of creativity, beautifully stylized and visually compelling. Hodgson has created a number of artistic books, full of extraordinary illustrations, fanciful tales a la' Nick Bantock. ![]()
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