Putting the Spotlight on Women: Female Travellers and Gender

British male travellers have visited Spain during centuries and their portrayal of the Iberian Peninsula has been studied thoroughly. However, the role of many women travellers arriving to Spain from Scotland, England and Wales has not been analysed in depth yet. This lecture and panel discussion will give visibility to the writings by women travellers and will explore how their views of people, customs, and heritage differ from previous male stereotypical approaches. The panel will present the most relevant books of the important travel writing collection housed at Instituto Cervantes London and discuss the contributions that modern-day female travellers, bloggers and new writers on social media have subsequently made to the image of Spain. Speakers: Alicia Kent, King’s College London, "Women, War and Witness". María Losada Friend, Pablo de Olavide University, "Emotion and Sustainability: Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's "Spain, 1920". Alberto Egea Fernández-Montesinos, Pablo de Olavide University, "From the Beautiful to the Sublime to the Picturesque in Emmeline Stuart-Wortley´'s Impressions of Spain". Sarah Symmons, University of Essex, School of Philosophy and Art History, "I was obliged to put on a veil;" Fashionable Concealment in the 1781 Spanish Diary of the Honourable Mary Graham." Chair: Professor Catherine Boyle, Latin American Cultural Studies at Kings College London Organised by Instituto Cervantes and King’s College London.