Abstract
This essay examines the case of a lesser-known nineteenth-century female traveler: the French Romantic woman writer Sophie Cottin (1770-1807), who spent the last few months of 1806 traveling through Italy with a convalescing relative and writing letters home sharing her impressions. These letters have scholarly significance not only because they predate nineteenth-century French women's travel narratives examined elsewhere, but also because they offer insight into various other “journeys” Cottin completed during the final year of her life: reconciling the domesticity ideals of Jean-Jacques Rousseau she espoused with her work as a novelist (femininity versus fame) as well as weighing the influence of religion and ideology in her life (faith versus philosophy).
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