The Author: Giorgia Alù has been teaching Italian at the University of Warwick, where she also completed a Ph.D. in comparative literature. Her publications focus on nineteenth-century representations of Italy, women’s travel writing, the relationship between literature and photography, and contemporary Italian women writing on migration.

• Contents: Women’s travel and expatriation – 19th-century British women in Sicily – British and Italian representations of the Mezzogiorno – Italian Unification – Women and the Italian Risorgimento – Female epistolary voice – Ethnographic vogue – Family and historical memoir – Iconography of Southern Italy – Women and photography.

The Author: Giorgia Alù has been teaching Italian at the University of Warwick, where she also completed a Ph.D. in comparative literature. Her publications focus on nineteenth-century representations of Italy, women’s travel writing, the relationship between literature and photography, and contemporary Italian women writing on migration.

• Contents: Women’s travel and expatriation – 19th-century British women in Sicily – British and Italian representations of the Mezzogiorno – Italian Unification – Women and the Italian Risorgimento – Female epistolary voice – Ethnographic vogue – Family and historical memoir – Iconography of Southern Italy – Women and photography.

The Author: Giorgia Alù has been teaching Italian at the University of Warwick, where she also completed a Ph.D. in comparative literature. Her publications focus on nineteenth-century representations of Italy, women’s travel writing, the relationship between literature and photography, and contemporary Italian women writing on migration.

• Contents: Women’s travel and expatriation – 19th-century British women in Sicily – British and Italian representations of the Mezzogiorno – Italian Unification – Women and the Italian Risorgimento – Female epistolary voice – Ethnographic vogue – Family and historical memoir – Iconography of Southern Italy – Women and photography.