The extraordinary accomplishments in the travel writing and photography of Lady Brassey are the subject of Nancy Micklewright's study. It has to be understood that Lady Brassey never thought of herself as anything other than a normal woman of her period and class. 'Nancy Micklewright's first book brings together a body of rich and varied source material to produce a nuanced view of the production, consumption, and uses of photography in the nineteenth century... As the first book that brings together Lady Brassey's photographs and travel writings, it also intoduces the figure of a victorian woman who had been overlooked.' Visual Resources