<i>Hospes, Hostis</i>: The Experience of Nineteenth-Century French and English Women Travelers in Mallorca

The article explores the evolution of the concept of hospitality in nineteenth-century travel narratives, focusing on the unique experiences of women travelling to Mallorca. While the principles of Homeric hospitality were constrained by Kant and the Encyclopedists at the end of the eighteenth century, what form of hospitality awaited these travellers? How did French writers George Sand, Joséphine de Brinckmann, and Jane Dubuisson; Austrian traveller Mme de Harrasowsky; and English visitors Elizabeth Mary Grosvenor and H. Belsches Graham Bellingham experience Mallorca? Were they met with hospitality or inhospitality, and did they encounter a form of hospitality that was universal or conditional?