Journal of a continental tour, 1 July 1815 - 24 June 1816.

Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2009.

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The two volumes give an account of the second half of an extended continental tour taken by Miss Dennison, her parents and her brother Robert, the Misses Langstone, and a Mr Stanford. The journal is actually a transcription of a series of letters written by Dennison to her friend Mary in Bath, although the letters do not seem to have been written for publication. There is much detail of galleries, gardens, churches, antiquities, and other sites, as well as mention of fellow English travellers, and, as with all diaries of these years, notes on the French armies. Miss Dennison and her companions travelled from Lausanne to Bern, Arlesheim, Milan, Bologna, Parma, Florence, Rome, Naples (where she comments on the excavations at Pompeii and Herculaneum), Mont Cenis, Paris, and Versailles, (with other places en route).

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