Beginning with the publication of the first Murray guidebook to Greece in 1840 and ending with Virginia Woolf's journey to Athens, Mahn offers a genealogy of British women's travel literature about Greece. Her fascinating and historically contextualized study examines first-hand accounts by archaeologists, ethnographers, journalists and tourists as she charts women's renderings of Modern Greece through a series of discursive lenses.

Churnjeet Mahn is Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Chancellor's Fellow in the School of Humanities, University of Strathclyde, Scotland.

Introduction; Greek panoramas: Murray and Baedeker's guidebooks to Greece, 1840-1909; 'Hellas at Cambridge': Agnes Smith Lewis and Jane Ellen Harrison; Ethnography and British women's travel writing about Greece, 1847-1914; Image conscious: the new lady traveller at the fin de siecle; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.