Traveling economies : American women's travel writing /
"The black and white women travel writers whom Jennifer Bernhardt Steadman investigates in Traveling Economies astonish modern readers with their daring, stamina, and courage. That these women traveled at all is surprising: Nancy Prince spent nearly a decade as an African American member of the...
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Columbus :
Ohio State University Press
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv1725r3g |
Table of Contents:
- Ragged-edge travelers Amy Morris Bradley and Nancy Prince evaluate the economies of travel
- Scolding the nation: the political travel writing of Anne Royall
- Traveling uplift: Mary Ann Shadd Cary creates and connects Black communities
- A "singular spectacle of a female": Frances Wright's traveling figure
- To the summit of equality: a feminist traveler, bloomers, and the antebellum feminist press.