A Journey to the Highlands of Scotland, with Occasional Remarks on Dr. Johnson's Tour, published anonymously in 1777, is a lively account of its female author's tour of Scotland, told in the form of letters to her friends in England. This text, significant as an example of early women's travel writing, is also of interest for its attacks on Dr. Samuel Johnson's more famous A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775). This new scholarly edition, the first ever republication of this work, features a new introduction and notes by Barbara Britton Wenner, as well as contextual appendices.
"As the study of nonfictional works in the eighteenth century, particularly travelogues, has become more popular, it is not difficult to access many scholarly editions of the travel accounts of Mary Wortley Montagu, Ann Radcliffe, and Mary Wollstonecraft, among others. This edition of Journey to the Highlands of Scotland will be useful both to those interested in Samuel Johnson and those interested in travel narratives and eighteenth-century literature by women in general. Her book expands upon an understanding of Johnson's writing and that of his biographer, Boswell, as well as adding to other knowledge of the feminine perspective on sentimental and picturesque travel in the eighteenth century. The Lady's Journey deserves re-evaluation as a significant eighteenth century representation of female authority as traveler, writer, critic, and aesthetician." -- From the Introduction by Barbara Britton Wenner.
A Journey to the Highlands of Scotland, with Occasional Remarks on Dr. Johnson's Tour
By A Lady
Edited by Barbara Britton Wenner
