{"id":1383,"date":"2026-06-23T09:20:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T09:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.discoverscilla.com\/?page_id=1383"},"modified":"2026-08-19T08:32:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T08:32:06","slug":"emily-lowe-donne-indifese-in-calabria-sicilia-e-sulla-cima-delletna","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverscilla.com\/en\/emily-lowe-donne-indifese-in-calabria-sicilia-e-sulla-cima-delletna\/","title":{"rendered":"Emily Lowe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container has-pattern-background has-mask-background nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1331.2px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p class=\"translation-block\">Emily Lowe (Torquay \u2013 Torquay, 21 March 1882) was a British writer, a woman of strong and independent character, at\ntimes daring, known for her travel accounts, including the journey she made through Sicily and Calabria in 1859.<br>\nThe first woman in England to obtain a naval captain\u2019s license and to cross the Mediterranean commanding a 350-ton\nyacht, Emily Lowe broke the stereotypes of female travelers of her time: she was neither an intrepid spinster with a parasol,\nnor a pilgrim in skirts, nor a picnic pioneer.\nIn 1859, in London, Emily Lowe anonymously published *Unprotected Females in Sicily, Calabria and on the Top of\nMount Aetna*, the account of a three-month journey through Calabria and Sicily undertaken with her mother, without\nan escort and with light luggage, in order to avoid the presence of inconvenient gentlemen.<br>\nFully aware of the uniqueness of her journey, the writer often suggests to the reader that she is a true traveller and not\nmerely a tourist and, as soon as she landed on the Calabrian shore, exclaimed: \u201cHurrah for Calabria! A land whose romantic\ndangers protect it from the invasion of travellers.\u201d\nAlthough she sometimes fell into the traps of the stereotypes and prejudices that often characterize travel diaries, Emily\nLowe offers a delightful feminine portrait of the region and of the Calabrians of her time, while also highlighting the positive\ntraits of the society that hosted her.<br>\nLowe arrived in Scilla by stagecoach (postal coach), which crossed Calabria from Reggio to Naples three times a week,\nmaking the journey itself a key to understanding the territory.<br>\nHer encounter with a soldier, distinguished by courtesy and a sense of honor, helped dismantle the image of a land dominated\nby danger, instead conveying the idea of a Calabria founded on dignity, respect, and hospitality.<br>\nThe description of Scilla then rises to a symbolic synthesis of nature and myth: the rock overlooking the Strait, evoked\nthrough solemn imagery and Homeric references, loses its threatening character and emerges as a place of harmony,\nbeauty, and memory.<br>\nThe gestures of hospitality and kindness shown by the people of Scilla become signs of a simple and gracious civilization,\nreinforcing the idea of a land that remained genuine and unspoiled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\"><i>\u201cA soldier carrying arms climbed into the coach, and before entering he carefully arranged his small sword so that it\nlay between us, then followed it with his uniform and rank, and was welcomed as a gentleman; and as such he behaved\nthroughout the journey, making our wishes his law. <br>Instead of being constrained by the postal service, he placed the\ncoach, the horses, and the postilions at our disposal.<br>\nThus he gave orders to stop at the most beautiful places so that we might sketch them.<br>\nFirst came Scilla, which looked like a \u2018sea eagle,\u2019 with its towering crest and its wings of fortified rock. Its \u2018dogs,\u2019 which\nHomer said barked so fearfully, were only little rocks gently washed by the calm sea, cradling dolphins where once the\nmurderous Sirens sang.<br>\nWhile we were sketching, a gentleman came out of a garden to offer us a bouquet of roses, and with that small gesture\nrevealed a delightful fact: how rarely those places were visited by travellers, something confirmed by the absence of\nbeggars.<br>\nStromboli rose like a pyramid with its summit cut off.\nOne after another, the Lipari Islands appeared on the horizon.<br>\nThe Lighthouse of Messina, the tip of Sicily, with its two lakes, seemed to be striving to touch the coast beneath us, so\nnarrow was the Strait.<br>\nStretches of mulberry trees, bearing white and black fruit, alternated along the road with vines trained upon tall stone\ncolonnades, laden with clusters so large that they had to be supported by baskets hanging beneath them, while other\nbunches were drying to produce raisins.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The author\u2019s principal aim is to deconstruct conventional ideas regarding women\u2019s ability to travel, presenting herself as\nan adventurous and courageous traveller while at the same time remaining romantic and sensitive.\nThe arguments advanced by the author are intended to challenge stereotypes of vulnerability and domesticity associated\nwith her sex and to emphasize female autonomy in the experience of travel.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\"><p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Giuseppe Ribuffo<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-2 fusion-flex-container has-pattern-background has-mask-background nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1331.2px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div ><a class=\"fusion-button button-flat fusion-button-default-size button-custom fusion-button-default button-1 fusion-button-default-span\" style=\"--button_accent_color:#f20800;--button_border_color:#2038b2;--button_accent_hover_color:var(--awb-color1);--button_border_hover_color:var(--awb-color1);--button_gradient_top_color:var(--awb-color1);--button_gradient_bottom_color:var(--awb-color1);--button_gradient_top_color_hover:var(--awb-color4);--button_gradient_bottom_color_hover:var(--awb-color4);--button_text_transform:none;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverscilla.com\/en\/seneca-lettere-morali-a-lucilio\/\"><i class=\"fa-angle-double-right fas awb-button__icon awb-button__icon--default button-icon-left\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><span class=\"fusion-button-text awb-button__text awb-button__text--default\">Next page: 85. 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