Eighteenth-century landscapes are settings across literary environments wherein female characters find themselves. While real and tangible nature and landscapes do exist, the landscapes discussed here come from the literary imagination. Female writers such as Jane Austen, Ann Radcliffe, Ann Yearsley, Joanna Baillie, and Frances Burney discuss landscapes in their writing, demonstrating an adroit understanding of place and society. This understanding encompassed not only the landscapes themselves but also how women navigated these spaces and the pitfalls that awaited them. While real landscapes capture the imagination, literary landscapes that follow aesthetic values such as the sublime, the beautiful, and the picturesque demonstrated that women writers read figures such as Edmund Burke and William Gilpin, among others. From the walkways of the pleasure garden to the wilds of sublime nature, women writers and their female characters appeared everywhere, traversing terrifying spaces in nature and braving dangers and adventure. Landscapes offer a place of refuge at times and danger at others, which presented a changeable and challenging terrain for female characters and women writers. Nevertheless, they persisted.