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Helen Emily Lowe (died 21 March 1882 in Torquay) was a British travel writer. Lowe made travels to Scandinavia and southern Europe together with her mother. Her experiences were published in two books: Unprotected Females in Norway, or the Pleasantest Way of Travelling There, Passing through Denmark and Sweden. 1857, G. Routledge & Co. and Unprotected Females in Sicily, Calabria and on the Top of Mount Aetna. 1859, G. Routledge & Co.
When travelling, Lowe intentionally brought a minimum of luggage. In her first book she writes: “The only use of a gentleman in travelling is to look after the luggage, and we take care to have no luggage.”[1] Lowe appears, sometimes as Emily and sometimes as Helen, in several essays and books on women and travelling in the 19th century, such as:
- Arcara, Stefania. "The Serpent and the Dove: Emily Lowe, an Unprotected Victorian Traveller in No Need of Protection." Journal of Gender Studies, Vol. 3, Issue 1 1994.
- McVicker, Mary F. 2008. Women Adventurers, 1750-1900. A Biographical Dictionary. McFarland & Co, Inc. Jefferson, North Carolina and London.
- Balducci, Temma & Heather Belnap Jensen. (Ed.) 2014. Women, Femininity and Public Space in European Visual Culture 1789-1914. Ashgate Publ. Ltd.: Farnham.
- Saunders, Clare Broome. (Ed.) 2014. Women, Travel Writing, and Truth. Routledge; Taylor & Francis Group.
- Mulen, Richard & James Munson. 2009. The Smell of the Continent: the British Discover Europe. Pan Books.
- McFadden, Margaret H. 1999. Golden Cables of Sympathy: the Transatlantic Sources of Nineteenth-Century Feminism. The University Press of Kentucky.
- Reilly, Catherine W. 2000. Mid-Victorian Poetry 1860-1879. Mansell.
- Walchester, Kathryn. 2014. Gamle Norge and Nineteenth-Century British Women Travellers in Norway. Anthem Press: London.
- ^ Robinson, Jane (2001). Unsuitable for Ladies: An Anthology of Women Travellers. Oxford University Press. p. 11. ISBN 9780192802019.