Travel is an essential part of everyday life for most people, and it inevitably brings inconvenience at times, but women have often experienced particular and distinctive constraints and harassments while traveling that may inhibit or reduce their mobility. However, we know relatively little in detail about how, why, and how much women traveled in the past. This article provides new evidence about female mobility in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain by analyzing the daily movements that were recorded in the personal diaries of nine young women. The diary entries show that all the women traveled frequently both alone and with others, used a variety of transport technologies that were available at the time, and rarely recorded incidents that caused them concern or alarm. Mobility was not only essential for carrying out everyday activities but it was also central to the development of friendships and, especially, courting. Both social class and location did have some influence on the ways in which the young women traveled, on their freedom to travel alone, and on the inconveniences they faced. However, overall, the similarities between the experiences of the nine diarists were much greater than the differences. Although it is not possible to generalize widely from just nine accounts, these diaries do provide new insights into female mobility in the past.

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大约 1880-1950 年在英国移动的年轻女性

对于大多数人来说，旅行是日常生活的重要组成部分，有时不可避免地会带来不便，但女性在旅行中经常会遇到特殊和独特的限制和骚扰，这可能会抑制或降低她们的行动能力。然而，我们对女性过去旅行的方式、原因和数量知之甚少。本文通过分析九名年轻女性个人日记中记录的日常活动，为 19 世纪和 20 世纪英国女性的流动提供了新的证据。日记条目显示，所有女性都经常独自或与他人一起旅行，使用了当时可用的各种交通技术，很少记录引起她们担忧或惊慌的事件。流动性不仅对于进行日常活动至关重要，而且对于发展友谊，尤其是求爱也是至关重要的。社会阶层和位置确实对年轻女性的旅行方式、她们独自旅行的自由以及她们面临的不便产生了一些影响。然而，总体而言，九位日记作者的经历之间的相似之处远大于差异。虽然不可能仅从九个账户中广泛概括，但这些日记确实为过去的女性流动性提供了新的见解。总体而言，九位日记作者的经历之间的相似之处远大于差异。虽然不可能仅从九个账户中广泛概括，但这些日记确实为过去的女性流动性提供了新的见解。总体而言，九位日记作者的经历之间的相似之处远大于差异。虽然不可能仅从九个账户中广泛概括，但这些日记确实为过去的女性流动性提供了新的见解。