Chicago: Herbert S. Stone, 1901. First edition. Theakstone, Victorian & Edwardian Women Travellers, page 330; Kramer, Stone & Kimball, 275. The first book by Southern California poet and writer, Olive Percival (1868-1945), a charming series of sketches about Mexico City: "tender words of appreciation and an intimate sympathy for some.....
New York: The Abbey Press, (1902). First edition. Theakstone, Victorian & Edwardian Women Travellers, page 126. An extraordinary account of the journey by Ida Dorman Morris and her husband, James Edwin Morris, from New Orleans, through Texas and down into Mexico, where they traveled extensively as far south as Puebla.....
London: John Murray, 1880. First edition. Robinson, Wayward Women, page 81; Theakstone, Victorian & Edwardian Women Travellers, page 35. The extraordinary account by Isabella Bird (1831-1904) of her first trip to Japan, which she undertook alone in 1878. Upon arrival she hired a servant to accompany her and purchased a......
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme Brown, 1809, First edition. Colbert, Women's Travel Writing, 1780-1840; and see the ODNB. The first of three travelogues by Scottish writer and novelist Elizabeth Isabella Spence (1768-1832), a series of 55 letters about her excursions in the countryside and observations on what.....
London: Routledge, Warnes, and Routledge, 1859. First edition. Robinson, Wayward Women, page 117; Theakstone, Victorian & Edwardian Women Travellers, page 260. The second of two books by Englishwoman Emily Emeline Lowe (b1835), a lively narrative about travels through Sicily with her mother, which they undertook unescorted – i.e., unprotected –.....
London: Printed for A. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1789. First edition. ESTC T71718; Rothschild 1551; Pine-Coffin 784-5; Robinson, Wayward Women, page 243. In 1784 Hester Lynch Thrale (1741-1821), the famous friend and confidante of Samuel Johnson, married an Italian musician, Gabriel Mario Piozzi, and they soon set off for Europe.....
London: Printed for John Stockdale, 1801. First edition. Rothschild 1553; NCBEL II, 1595. A sweeping chronological history of the world in 540 pages, from the birth of Christ to 1800, told in the entertaining, informal style of Hester Lynch Piozzi (1741-1821). Retrospection was written and published to celebrate (and profit.....
London: Printed by J. Plymsell; for T. N. Longman, 1797. First edition. ESTC N12984. Rachel Charlotte Biggs was acquainted with France when she traveled by herself there in 1792 to aid an aristocratic lady friend, during which time she witnessed the Revolution during its grim climax. Out of concern for.....
London: Printed by William Bulmer and Co., Shakespeare Printing Office; for John White, 1805. First and only edition. See Colbert, Women's Travel Writing, 1780-1840. Topographically inspired poetry about Turkey, Syria and Greece by Joseph Dacre Carlyle (1759-1804), posthumously edited by his sister Susanna Maria Carlyle (1752-1833), handsomely printed by William.....
London: Printed at the Minerva Press for A. K. Newman, 1813. First edition. NCBEL III, 734 (which cites the date as 1825); Blakey, Minerva Press, page 241 (but apparently did not locate a copy to examine); OCLC records nine copies; Colbert; ODNB. The first of several imaginary travelogues for young.....
A letter from 21-year-old Julia White Peck (1829-1859) to her future mother-in-law, Mrs. Henry Marsh of St. Louis, Missouri. Julia was about to travel to Turkey to serve as a Christian missionary with her fiancé, Rev. Dwight Marsh, who was stationed in Mosul (then part of Turkey). Her knowledge of.....