Magyarország egy angol úri hölgy szemszögéből – Julia Pardoe útleírása 1839–40-ből
Hungary through the Eyes of an English Lady: Julia Pardoe’s Travelogue from 1839–40

Summary/Abstract: The study explores a travelogue chronicling the journey of Julia Pardoe, an English gentlewoman, in nineteenth-century Hungary. Dömötör focuses on the picture Miss Pardoe paints of contemporary Hungary for her predominantly English female audience, placing the work in the context of nineteenth-century travel literature and the characteristics of the social segment defined as ‘gentlewomen’ in England at the time. To determine the extent to which Julia Pardoe adhered to the social expectations of the time in this particular work of hers, Dömötör examines whether the themes, places and people featuring in the book fit into the so-called feminine thematic dictated by the nineteenth-century norm for published female travellers. The analysis suggests that Miss Pardoe’s precise and detailed picture of contemporary Hungarian life and society often breaches the societal boundary between the worlds of men and women. Although she often wrote on ‘masculine themes,’ she successfully maintained her image as a lady author and was much acclaimed both in England and Hungary.

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