It's interesting that the Grand Tour was commonly for young
men, yet out of all the travel narratives we read, they are all told from the
perspective of women. In Mary Wollstonecraft's Letters written during a short
residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, there seems to be a
different type of travel narrative. It reads more like a story, rather than an
account and it seems to be autobiographical. Out of all the stories, this one
is very personable, and real. Though all the women use sublimity in their
works, in Wollstonecraft's work, Wollstonecraft connects a lot of it to sterility
and the beautiful to fertility
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