Author Archives: grainnegoodwin

In February 1929, Evelyn Waugh and Freya Stark documented their flight experiences, documenting their journey from London to Paris. Within the extracts, both writers have a tendency to firstly, explain the reasons for their travel and secondly, to describe their flight experience as a whole. Their narratives contain a lot of flamboyant and perhaps, exaggerated,Continue reading “From Trenches to Tourism; a bird’s eye view of travel”

In the winter and spring of 1873 Emily and John Dearman Birchall embarked on a five-month honeymoon trip to continental Europe, which Emily recorded in a diary. Despite the private nature of Emily’s writing (her diary was not edited and published until 1985) sex is strongly absent from the newlywed’s account. Perhaps this is unsurprising.Continue reading “No sex please we’re British: Victorian Honeymooners”