Travel Flashcards
Nijo goes to sea
“I once went to sea. It was very lonely. I realised it made very little difference where I went.” Nijo
Isabella’s durability
“…but even though my spine was agony I managed very well.” Isabella
Nijo’s independence
“I had to live for myself and I did live.” Nijo
Nijo is fulfilled
“The shrine by the beach, the moon shining on the sea…I was full of hope.” Nijo
Isabella is not a little woman
“the ordinary drudgery of life.” Isabella
“Houses are so perfectly dismal.” Isabella
“I never had any children.” Isabella
Isabella adopting the male role and Henny/the Doctor is the wife at home
“How could I go on my travels without that sweet soul waiting at home for my letters.” Isabella.
Nijo’s second half of her life
“For the next twenty years, I waited through Japan.” Nijo
Isabella - colonialism, racism and classism
“Buddhism is really most uncomfortable.”
“There are some barbaric practices in the east.”
“I talked and talked explaining how the East was corrupt and vicious. My travels must do good to someone beside myself. I wore myself out with good causes.’
Isabella could marry, but she doesn’t as it restricts her from traveling
“Mr Nugent was a man that any women might love but none could marry.” Isabella
“And I didn’t get married till I was fifty.” Isabella
Isabella defends her feminism
“Well I always travelled as a lady and I repudiated strongly any suggestion in the press that I was other than feminine.” Isabella
New world found in travel
“But suddenly it was like a new world.” Isabella
Isabella feels bad for her ‘self-gratification’ when traveling, thus when she returns to England and at the end of her life, she spends her time fulfilled her patriarchal feminine obligations.
“Whenever I came back to England I felt I had so much to atone for. Henny and John were so good. I did no good in my life. I spent years in self-gratification. So I hurled myself into committees, I nursed the people of Tobermory in the epidemic of influenza…” Isabella
Marlene wants to go on holidays
‘I haven’t time for a holiday. I’d like to go somewhere exotic like you but I can’t get away..I’d like to lie in the sun forever, except of course I can’t bear sitting still.’ Marlene
Even Angie understands the nature of travel
“People who go keep going all the time, back and forth on jets. They go on Concorde and Laker and get jet lag. Will you take me?” Angie to Marlene
Fast paced, consumer lifestyle
“Driving across the states for a new job in L.A” Marlene in a postcard to Angie
‘I spent a lot’
