From Lady Ann Fanshawe, who braved cholera epidemics, brigand-infested roads and pirates on her travels to Spain and Portugal, to Hester Stanhope, who disdained convention and personal safety by riding openly through the Syrian desert to the ruins of Palmyra, women travellers of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries opened the doors to countries around the world for the women who followed them. Filled with fascinating portraits of many of these intrepid travellers and with images of the scenes they encountered on their journeys, No Place for a Lady is a provocative look at women who knew their place was truly not at home.