ABSTRACT

Two Dianas in Alaska challenges common conceptions of Edwardian travel and travel literature – and not only that written by women, but also by men, because the book includes contributions from one of Herbert’s male companions. While many women were travelling and, sometimes, hunting with man, far fewer women than men published accounts of their trips. What made Two Dianas in Alaska different from the majority of travelogues, however, even those focused on hunting, was that it not only told the story of a party that included both women and men, but gave each gender a voice in the structure of the narrative. The audiences for narratives in both Britain and the United States were overwhelmingly white and middle or upper class, and the transatlantic publishing houses that catered to them ensured that they were exposed to writing by both British and American hunters.