ABSTRACT
Nina Mazuchelli’s text, The Indian Alps and How we Crossed them, (1876), does not fit in with the conventional vision of the eccentric British spinster traveller figure which I have described in previous chapters. Mazuchelli rarely figures in accounts of women travel writers, partly because of this lack of congruence. She is, in many ways, the embodiment of the Victorian discourses of femininity: the narrator figure embraces the discourses of femininity wholeheartedly. However, despite this tendency towards the discourses of femininity there are still elements which are determined by the discourses of colonialism.
