Booth proves herself an insightful and erudite travelling companion for her readers. The sum total of her expeditions is a distinctive, perceptive, and fascinating book-a valuable contribution to a burgeoning field of interdisciplinary study.

Lee Jackson, Author of Walking Dickens' London (Shire Publications, 2012), Dirty Old London (Yale UP, 2014), and Palaces of Pleasure (Yale UP, 2019)

Booth's journeys to the homes and haunts of nineteenth-century authors illuminate the significance of an often over-looked and undervalued kinetic mode of literary reception that continues to impact literary studies in the twenty-first century, and in the process unseats simplistic distinctions between academic and amateur engagement with authors in place.

Amber Pouliot, Woolf Studies Annual

Booth tracks the growth of literary tourism as a middle-class, aspirational form of travel, and teases out its relationship to nationalism and regionalism as well as its reliance on nineteenth-century ideologies of genius, domesticity, and privacy.

Andrea Henderson, Studies in English Literature