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Helena Bonham Carter from the island shores of the land of Shakespeare Mary Queen of Scots, Jane Austen. More women than ever before travelled abroad during the 19th century, a time when a woman is restrained as much by Victorian society as by her corset and lives within the boundaries of our parlour. Onda. Well tended gardens on Jane's best selling author travelled alone, where no European woman had ventured before. France's Hopkins. The only woman to journey with and paint the legendary Voyager's Bell Countess of Aberdeen travelogue, writer and social activist. Thiss is their remarkable Storey told in their own words and images. Three women who dared to rebel against the limitations of their time to travel to the North American colonies. The year is 18 36. Darwin has returned from his five year research voyage. He will be denounced from the pulpit is a blast FEMA for his theories on the origin of species. But in his book The Descent of Man, he reassured his readers. That man is more evolved