Writing Travelogues in the Early Nineteenth Century: The Story Behind Mary Holderness’s Travel Account of Journeying from Riga to Crimea via Kyiv

DOI: 10.47632/2786-717X-2024-3-117-141 УДК 94:910.4(470+571)"18"(093) Як цитувати: Nataliia Voloshkova, Writing Travelogues in the Early Nineteenth Century: The Story Behind Mary Holderness’s Travel Account of Journeying from Riga to Crimea via Kyiv, Ukrainian Historical Review / Український історичний огляд, IІІ | 2024, 117–141. Nataliia Voloshkova Writing Travelogues in the Early Nineteenth Century: The Story Behind Mary Holderness’s Travel Account of Journeying from Riga to Crimea via Kyiv This article explores travel accounts penned by two British travelers who journeyed through and resided in the Russian empire in the early nineteenth century: the agriculturalist Arthur Young (1769-1827) and Mary Holderness, an author of “Journey from Riga to the Crimea, with Some Accounts of the Manners and Customs of the Colonists of New Russia” (1827) and other travel accounts. Drawing on unpublished correspondence recently uncovered in the British archives, the article expands our knowledge about their travels on the territory of present-day Ukraine, including Kyiv, and their residence and activities in Crimea. The article also sheds light on the production, reception, and impact of Holderness’s travelogue both in Britain and other European countries such as France, Switzerland, Germany, and the Netherlands, thus adding to our understanding of the ways in which knowledge about the world was disseminated in the period. Through comparative textual analysis of her narrative and earlier published travel texts, particularly those penned by the famed female travel writers, Elizabeth Craven and Mary Wortley Montagu, the article explores Holderness’s intertextual strategies and illuminates the ways in which travel books were produced in the period. 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