An English Lady in the French Colonies: Gabrielle Vassal, Part I

[6] Mills, p. 3.

[7] The most prominent scholars arguing that there is a qualitative difference between female and male travel writers and their writing are Sara Mills, Discourse of Difference: An analysis of women's travel writing and colonialism, (London and NY: Routledge, 1991), Susan Morgan, Place Matters: Gendered Geography in Victorian Women's Travel Books About Southeast Asia, (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996), Jane Robinson, Unsuitable for Ladies: An Anthology of Women Travellers, (Oxford and NY: Oxford University Press, 1994), and Patricia W. Romero, ed., Women's Voices on Africa: A Century of Travel Writings, (Princeton and NY: Markus Wiener Publishing, 1992).

[8] The three travelogues written by Gabrielle Vassal are: On and Off Duty in Annam, (London: William Heinemann, 1910); In and Round Yunnan Fou, (London: William Heinemann, 1922); and Life in French Congo, (London: T. Fisher Unwin Ltd., 1925).

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