WOMEN'S TRAVEL WRITING, 1830-1930:

AUTHORS/TEXTS SELECTED FOR PROCESSING

Africa:

• US writers:
  
  
  1. Scott, Anna M. (Steele):
     Day Dawn in Africa; or, Progress of the Prot. Epis. Mission at Cape Palmas, West Africa (1858)
     
     
  2. Sheldon, Mary French, 1847-1936:
     Excerpts from Sultan to Sultan. Adventures among the Masai and other Tribes of East Africa (1892)
     
     
  3. Thomas, Susan Brewer, 1793-:
     Travels in Europe, Egypt, and Palestine (1860)
     
     
• European writers:
  
  
  1. Forbes, Rosita, 1890-1967:
     • Excerpts from The Secret of the Sahara: Kufara (1921)
       
       
  2. Kingsley, Mary Henrietta, 1862-1900:
     • Excerpts from West African Studies (1901)
     • Excerpts from Travels in West Africa: Congo francais, Corisco and Cameroons (1904)
       
       

East Asia & Oceania:

• European writers:
  
  
  1. Bird, Isabella Lucy, 1831-1904:
     
     • The Hawaiian Archipelago; Six Months Among the Palm Groves, Coral Reefs, and Volcanoes of the Sandwich Islands (1886)
       
     • The Yangtze Valley and Beyond; an Account of Journeys of China, Chiefly in the Province of Sze Chuan and Among the Man-tze of the Somo Territory (1900)
       
       
  2. Meredith, Louisa Anne Twamley (Mrs Charles Meredith), 1812-1895:
     Some of My Bush Friends in Tasmania; Native Flowers, Berries, and Insects, Drawn from Life, Illustrated in Verse, and Briefly Described (1860)
     
     
• US writers:
  
  
  1. Bridgman, Eliza Jane (Gillett):
     Daughters of China; or, Sketches of Domestic Life in the Celestial Empire (1853)
     
     
  2. Shuck, Henrietta Hall, 1817-1844:
     Scenes in China; or, Sketches of the Country, Religion and Customs of the Chinese (1852)
     
     
  3. Wallis, Mary Davis (Cook):
     Life in Feejee; or, Five years among the Cannibals (1851)
     
     

Latin America & Caribbean:

• US writers:
  
  
  1. Agassiz, Elizabeth Cabot Cary, 1822-1907, contributor to:
     Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873:
     A Journey in Brazil (1869)
     
     
  2. Bly, Nellie, 1864-1922:
     Six Months in Mexico (1888)
     
     
  3. Hawthorne, Sophia Peabody, 1809-1871:
     The Cuba Journal, 1833-35
     Original in the NYPL's Berg Collection. Reproduced by University Microfilms International, 1985. Would require copyright permission.
     
     
  4. Howe, Julia Ward, 1819-1910:
     A Trip to Cuba (1860)
     
     
  5. O'Shaughnessy, Edith, 1870-1939:
     Excerpt from A Diplomat's Wife in Mexico (1916)
     
     
• European writers:
  
  
  1. Joyce, Lilian Elwyn Elliott, 1884- :
     The Argentina of Today (1926)
     
     
  2. Nugent, Lady Maria, 1771?-1834:
     Excerpt from A Journal of voyage to, and residence in, the island of Jamaica, from 1801-1805 (1839)
     
     

North America:

• European writers:
  
  
  1. Bremer, Fredrika, 1801-1865:
     The Homes of the New World; Impressions of America, v. 2. (1854)
     
     

Round the World:

• US writers:
  
  
  1. Allen, Harriet Trowbridge, d. 1877. :
     Travels in Europe and the East: During the Years 1858-159 and 1863-64 (1879)
     
     

Illustrated editions (Illustrations only):

• US writers:
  
  
  1. Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896:
     Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands (1854)
     Note: This title is also partially available in full-text format.
     
     
• European writers:
  
  
  1. Bird, Isabella Lucy, 1831-1904:
     Chinese Pictures (1901)
     
     
  2. Trollope, Fanny, 1780-1863:
     Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832)