WOMEN'S TRAVEL WRITING, 1830-1930:

SECONDARY STUDIES

• General Works
• By Area:
  1. Africa
  2. Latin America

GENERAL WORKS

1. Birkett, Dea. Spinsters Abroad: Victorian Lady Explorers. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1989.
   
   
2. Brothers, Barbara and Julia M. Gergits, eds. British Travel Writers, 1837-1875. Detroit: Gale Research, 1996. (Dictionary of literary biography; v. 166)
   
   
3. Brothers, Barbara and Julia Gergits, eds. British Travel Writers, 1876-1909. Detroit: Gale Research, 1997. (Dictionary of literary biography; v. 174)
   
   
4. Brothers, Barbara and Julia Gergits, eds. British Travel Writers, 1910-1939. Detroit: Gale Research, 1998. (Dictionary of literary biography; v. 195)
   
   
5. Foster, Shirley. Across New Worlds: Nineteenth-century Women Travellers and their Writings. New York: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1990.
   
   
6. Hamalian, Leo. Ladies on the Loose: Women Travellers of the 18th and 19th Centuries. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1981.
   
   
7. Mills, Sara. Discourses of Difference: An Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and Colonialism. London: Routledge, 1991.
   
   
8. Robinson, Jane, comp. Unsuitable for Ladies: An Anthology of Women Travellers. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.
   
   
9. Ross, Donald and James Schramer, eds. American Travel Writers, 1776-1864. (Dictionary of Literary Biography; v. 183). Detroit: Gale Research, 1997.
   
   
10. Schramer, James and Donald Ross, eds. American Travel Writers, 1850-1915. (Dictionary of Literary Biography; v. 189). Detroit: Gale Research, 1998.
    
    
11. Schriber, Mary Suzanne. Writing Home: American Women Abroad, 1830-1920. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1997.
    
    
12. Schweizer, Bernard. Radicals on the Road: the Politics of English Travel Writing in the 1930s. Charlottesville: Univ. Press of Virginia, 2001.
    
    
13. Tinling, Marion, ed. With Women's Eyes: Visitors to the New World, 1775-1918. Hamden, CT. Archon Books, 1993.
    
    
14. Wesley, Marilyn C. Secret Journeys: the Trope of Women's Travel in American Literature. Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, 1998.
    
    

BY AREA

• Africa
  
  
  1. Blunt, Alison. Travel, Gender and Imperialism: Mary Kingsley and West Africa. New York: Guilford Press, 1994.
     
     
  2. Dean, Sharon L. Constance Fenimore Woolson and Edith Wharton: Perspectives on Landscape and Art. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2002.
     
     
  3. Stevenson, Catherine Barnes. Victorian Women Travel Writers in Africa. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1982.
     
     
  4. Women's Voices on Africa and Africans : A Century of Travel Writings. Patricia W. Romero, ed. New York : M. Wiener Pub., 1992.
     
     
• Latin America
  
  
  1. Arbelaez A., Maria Soledad. "Mexico in the Nineteenth Century through British and North American Travel Accounts." Dissertation, Univ. of Miami, 1995.
     
     
  2. Mendez Rodenas, Adriana. "'The Cannon are Roaring': Calderon de la Barca's Life in Mexico (1843) as Gendered History," in Contesting the Master Narrative: Essays in Social History. Ed. Jeffrey Cox and Shelton Stromquist. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1998, 50-68.
     
     
  3. Mendez Rodenas, Adriana. Gender and Nationalism in Colonial Cuba: the Travels of Santa Cruz y Montalvo, Condesa de Merlin. Nashville: Vanderbilt Univ. Press, 1998.
     
     
  4. Santos Gómez, Susana. Bibliografía de viajeros a la Argentina.[Nueva ed.] Buenos Aires : Fundación para la Educación, la Ciencia y la Cultura, 1983.
     
     
  5. Szurmuk, Monica. "'Viajeras': Women's Travel Writing and the Construction of Self and National Identity in Argentina, 1850-1930." Dissertation, Univ. of California, San Diego, 1994.
     
     
  6. Women Through Women's Eyes: Latin American Women in Nineteenth-century Travel Accounts. June E. Hahner, ed. Wilmington, Del.: SR Books, 1998.