Friday 24th February 2023
Venue: Chawton House
Join exhibition curator Emma Yandle for an evening tour of our exhibition Trailblazers: Women travel writers and the exchange of knowledge before it closes to the public on 26 February.
Bringing together Chawton House’s collection of works by women writers, with loans from archives and museums across the country, Trailblazers offers a unique opportunity to explore the fascinating stories of the women who travelled the world in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Explore the lives and writings of five trailblazing women and discover how they journeyed across countries as varied as Turkey, Syria, Sweden, Brazil, Chile and Revolutionary France and communicated new knowledge in their writings.
Doors open at 6pm, with the tour commencing at 6:30pm.
£10 per person, includes a glass of wine on arrival in the Great Hall.
