Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review"It is expressive and confident women such as these who helped American women obtain greater independence, and ultimately changed their world."—Times Literary Supplement
"A valuable contribution."—Nineteenth-Century Literature
Table of ContentsTable of Contents
Introduction
Note on the Text
Emma Hart Willard: Journal and Letters, from France and Great-Britain
Abby Jane Morrell: Narrative of a Voyage
Sarah Rogers Haight: Letters from the Old World
Catharine Maria Sedgwick: Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home
Caroline Stansbury Kirkland: Holidays Abroad
Margaret Fuller Ossoli: At Home and Abroad
Nancy Prince: A Narrative of the Life and Travels of Mrs. Nancy Prince
Harriet Beecher Stowe: Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands
Julia Ward Howe: From the Oak to the Olive
Helen Hunt Jackson: Bits of Travel
Kate Field: Hap-Hazard
Lucy Seaman Bainbridge: Round-the-World Letters
Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman: Nellie Bly's Book
Fanny Bullock Workman: Algerian Memories
Constance Fenimore Woolson: Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu
Agnes McAllister: A Lone Woman in Africa
Notes
Selected Bibliography
