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PREFACE AND INTRODUCTION TO THE JOURNEY

Judy Chicago.The Dinner Party

Judy Chicago.The Heritage Floor

Contemporary Travelers by Ida Pfeiffer

Hester Stanhope (1776-1839)

Jane Franklin Griffin (1791-1875)

Carla Serena Hartog (1820-1884)

Mary Livingstone Moffatt (1821-1862)

Catherine de Bourboulon McLeod (1827-1865)

Lise Cristiani (1827-1853)

Helena Koltsova-Massalskaya Ghica
Dora d'Istria (1828-1888)

Marianne North (1830-1890)

Isabel Burton Arundell (1831-1896)

Amelia Edwards (1831-1892)

Isabella Bishop Bird (1831-1904)

Alexandrina Tinne (1835-1869)

The first women travelers and naturalists dedicated to insects

Prints of the work Entomological Element (1766) by Jakob Christian Schäffer, with the necessary utensils for the treatment, capture and conservation of insects.

Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717)

Margaret Fountaine (1862-1940)

Louisa Anne Meredith Twamley (1812-1895)

Evelyn Cheesman (1881-1969)

Mary Kingsley (1862-1900)

Cynthia Longfield (1896-1991)

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