WOMEN'S TRAVEL WRITING, 1830-1930:

AUTHORS/TEXTS AVAILABLE BY GEOGRAPHIC AREA

• AFRICA
  
  
  1. Akeley, Mary L. Jobe, b.1886
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     • Excerpts from Carl Akeley's Africa (1931) (Password protected)
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  2. Gaunt, Mary Eliza Bakewell, 1861-1942
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     • Excerpts from Alone in West Africa (1912)
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  3. Kingsley, Mary Henrietta, 1862-1900
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     • "The Development of Dodos" (1896)
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  4. Kirkland, Caroline
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     • Some African Highways (1908)
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  5. North, Marianne, 1830-1890
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     • Excerpts from Recollections of a Happy Life (1893)
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  6. Paine, Caroline
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     • Excerpts from Tent and Harem: Notes of an Oriental Trip (1859)
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  7. Ruete, Emilie, 1844-1924
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     • Excerpts from Memoirs of an Arabian Princess (1886, 1907)
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  8. Sheldon, Mary French, 1847-1936
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     • "Customs Among the Natives of East Africa" (1892)
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  9. Woolson, Constance Fenimore, 1840-1894
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     • "Cairo in 1890" (1917)
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  10. Workman, Fanny Bullock, 1859-1925
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      • Algerian Memories (1895)
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• EAST ASIA & OCEANIA
  
  
  1. Dietrich, Amalie, 1821-1891
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     • [Letters] from The Hard Road; the Life Story of Amalie Dietrich, Naturalist 1821-1891, by her daughter, Charitas Bischoff (1931) (Password protected)
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  2. Morrell, Abby Jane, b. 1809
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     • Narrative of a Voyage to the Ethiopic and South Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Chinese Sea, North and South Pacific Ocean, in the years 1829, 1830, 1831 (1833)
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  3. Stopes, Marie Carmichael, 1880-1958
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     • A Journal From Japan, a Daily Record of Life As Seen By a Scientist (1910)
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• EUROPE
  
  
  1. Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896
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     • Excerpts from Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands (1854)
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• LATIN AMERICA
  
  
  1. Calderon de la Barca, Frances, 1804-1882
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     • Excerpts from Life in Mexico (1843)
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  2. Dixie, Florence, Lady, 1857-1905
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     • Excerpts from Across Patagonia (1881)
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  3. Dreier, Katherine Sophie, 1877-1952
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     • Excerpts from Five Months in the Argentine From a Woman's Point of View (1920)
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  4. Murray, Amelia M. (Amelia Matilda), 1795-1884
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     • Excerpts from Letters from the United States, Cuba and Canada (1856)
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  5. O'Shaughnessy, Edith, 1870-1939
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     • Excerpts from Diplomatic Days (1917)
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  6. Peck, Annie Smith
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     • Excerpts from The South American Tour (1913)
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  7. Tristan, Flora, 1803-1844
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     • Excerpts from Mémoires et pérégrinations d'une paria (1838)
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  8. Wright, Irene Aloha, 1879-
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     • Excerpts from Cuba (1910)
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• NORTH AMERICA
  
  
  1. Cooper, Susan Fenimore, 1813-1894
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     • Excerpts from Rural Hours (1850)
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  2. Traill, Catherine Parr Strickland, 1802-1899
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     • Excerpts from Pearls and Pebbles; or, Notes of an Old Naturalist (1894)
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• ROUND THE WORLD
  
  
  1. Bisland, Elizabeth, 1861-1929
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     • In Seven Stages: a Flying Trip Around the World. (1891)
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  2. Bly, Nellie, 1864-1922
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     • Nellie Bly's Book: Around the World in Seventy-Two Days. (1891)
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