Jennifer Jenkins Wood

Spanish Women Travelers at Home and Abroad, 1850-1920

From Tierra del Fuego to the Land of the Midnight Sun

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Produktbeschreibung

Spanish Women Travelers acquaints English-speaking readers with the travel writings of eleven extraordinary women, Emilia Pardo Bazán, Carmen de Burgos, Rosario de Acuña, Carolina Coronado, Emilia Serrano, Eva Canel, Fernán Caballero, Princesses Paz and Eulalia de Borbón, Sofia Casanova, and Mother María de Jesús Güell, whose travels took them throughout their homeland, to the farthest reaches of Europe, South into Africa, and across the Atlantic to the length of the Americas.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 426
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 614g
• ISBN-13: 9781611487176
• ISBN-10: 161148717X
• Artikelnr.: 43026247

Autorenporträt

Jennifer Jenkins Wood is associate professor of Spanish at Scripps College.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Notes on Translations Acknowledgments Introduction to the History of Spanish Women Travelers An Overview of Gender and Travel Writing OneCecilia Böhl de Faber (b. 1796 Morges
Switzerland-d. 1877
Sevilla): On the Therapeutic Value of Travel TwoCarolina Coronado (b. Almendralejo
1820?-d. Lisbon
1911): A Melancholy Traveler ThreeEmilia Serrano
the Baronesa de Wilson (b. Granada
1833?-d. Barcelona
1923): The Bard of the Americas FourRosario de Acuña (b. Madrid
1850?-d. Gijón
1923): Spanish Mountain Landscapes FiveEmilia Pardo Bazán (b. La Coruña
1851-d. Madrid
1921): Discovering Spain and her Place in the World at the Turn of the Century SixEva Canel (b. Coana [Asturias]
1857-d. Havana
Cuba
1932): A Spanish Patriot in the Americas SevenSofia Pérez de Casanova (b. 1861 or 1862
Almeiras [Galicia]
Spain-d. 1958
Poznan
Poland): Poland and Russia through Spanish Eyes Eight Princess María Eulalia de Borbón (Madrid
1864-Fuenterrabía
1958): A Spanish Princess in theAmericas NineMaría de la Paz Borbón
Princess of Spain and Princess of Bavaria (b. Madrid
1862 -- d. Munich
1946): A Royal Pilgrim TenCarmen de Burgos Seguí (b. Almería
1867?-d. Madrid
1932): World Traveler and First Spanish Woman War Correspondent ElevenSpanish Missionary Nuns in Africa: The First Voyage of the Conceptionist Sisters to Fernando Po (Spanish Guinea)
1884-1885 Bibliography Primary sources Secondary sources About the Author Index