ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the narratives and novels that reveal the extraordinary connections between travel and imaginative thought for women writers in the modernist period. The one travel text written by a woman that is consistently included in studies of twentieth-century travel writing is Rebecca West's Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia. Though Black Lamb and Grey Falcon might be seen as "masculine" in scope, a reader of West's travel narrative never forgets West is a woman. West's prologue to Black Lamb and Grey Falcon is of great significance in considering her ideas about journeying which resonate with those of the other women modernists. Further exploration reveals a series of travel-related texts that are just as genre-bending and imaginative, works by other women writers who have made their own excursions into modernism. Making her mark more strongly than many other twentieth-century women travelers, West distinguished herself with a two-volume masterpiece of over a thousand pages.
