1600s England Through the Eyes of One of the First Modern Travel Writers (2017)
1–10 of 17 posts
Re: 1600s England Through the Eyes of One of the First Modern Travel Writers (2017)
#2It's about Celia Fiennes' Through England on a Side Saddle In the Time of William and Mary
"She travelled around England on horseback between 1684 and about 1703, "to regain my health by variety and change of aire and exercise". At this time the idea of travel for its own sake was still novel, and Fiennes was exceptional as an enthusiastic woman traveller."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celia_Fiennes
Download her book as pdf, epub etc: https://archive.org/details/throughenglando00fiengoog
That 1888 edition is the first complete one.
Re: 1600s England Through the Eyes of One of the First Modern Travel Writers (2017)
#3If you've read Neal Stephenson's "system of the world" this book is a voice straight out of that timeline. And for more contemporary references "the favourite"
Re: 1600s England Through the Eyes of One of the First Modern Travel Writers (2017)
#4Drop back a few decades and Pepys’ Diary is another fine slice of life of urban England. I’m finishing a public domain production of the 1893 edition[1] for Standard Ebooks[2] at the moment but in the meantime they’re all online and cross referenced at https://www.pepysdiary.com/ ; it’s fun to dive in and read an entry or two.
[1] https://github.com/robinwhittleton/samuel-pepys_the-diary-of...
Re: 1600s England Through the Eyes of One of the First Modern Travel Writers (2017)
#5Drop back a few decades and Pepys’ Diary is another fine slice of life of urban England. I’m finishing a public domain production of the 1893 edition[1] for Standard Ebooks[2] at the moment but in the meantime they’re all online and cross referenced at https://www.pepysdiary.com/ ; it’s fun to dive in and read an entry or two. [1] https://github.com/robinwhittleton/samuel-pepys_the-diary-of... [2] https://standardebo…
Oh that pepysdiary site looks awesome, thanks for the link. I really like the font. It's amazing how awful and hard-to-take-seriously stuff more than, say, 200 years old can look with a typical web font of today. What a great job.
Re: 1600s England Through the Eyes of One of the First Modern Travel Writers (2017)
#6If you want an account of these times written in modern English, "The Time Traveller's Guide to Restoration Britain" is a lively and entertaining read: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Time-Travellers-Guide-Restoration-B...
Re: 1600s England Through the Eyes of One of the First Modern Travel Writers (2017)
#7It's about Celia Fiennes' Through England on a Side Saddle In the Time of William and Mary "She travelled around England on horseback between 1684 and about 1703, "to regain my health by variety and change of aire and exercise". At this time the idea of travel for its own sake was still novel, and Fiennes was exceptional as an enthusiastic woman traveller." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celia_Fiennes Download her boo…
And I found this: http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/travellers/
Which has Celia's book (or most of it) with the locations marked on maps, and books by dozens of other early travellers around Britain.
Re: 1600s England Through the Eyes of One of the First Modern Travel Writers (2017)
#8It's about Celia Fiennes' Through England on a Side Saddle In the Time of William and Mary "She travelled around England on horseback between 1684 and about 1703, "to regain my health by variety and change of aire and exercise". At this time the idea of travel for its own sake was still novel, and Fiennes was exceptional as an enthusiastic woman traveller." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celia_Fiennes Download her boo…
That century was not a quiet one, either. It was a very important time for Scotland, and a bloody one at that.
Haven’t read through it yet but I wonder how far north she went
Re: 1600s England Through the Eyes of One of the First Modern Travel Writers (2017)
#9Interesting article, but I'm slightly puzzled by the [sic] comments following many of the quotes. The use of English looks correct for the time.
Re: 1600s England Through the Eyes of One of the First Modern Travel Writers (2017)
#10Drop back a few decades and Pepys’ Diary is another fine slice of life of urban England. I’m finishing a public domain production of the 1893 edition[1] for Standard Ebooks[2] at the moment but in the meantime they’re all online and cross referenced at https://www.pepysdiary.com/ ; it’s fun to dive in and read an entry or two. [1] https://github.com/robinwhittleton/samuel-pepys_the-diary-of... [2] https://standardebo…
There is also @samuelpepys on Twitter, doing a more or less real time replay of parts of the diary.