British women and cultural practices of empire, 1770-1940

Correspondence, travel writing, diary writing, painting, scrapbooking, curating, collecting and house interiors allowed British women scope to express their responses to imperial sites and experiences in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.

Taking these productions as its archive, this book includes a collection of essays from different disciplines that consider the role of British women's cultural practices and productions in conceptualising empire.

While such productions have started to receive greater scholarly attention, it uses a more self-conscious lens of gender to question whether female cultural work demonstrates that colonial women engaged with the spaces and places of empire in distinctive ways.