Traveling women : narrative visions of early America
"Women's travel narratives of early America recorded journeys north and south along the eastern seaboard and west onto the Ohio frontier. In the women's keen observations and entertaining wit, readers will find bravado mixed with hesitation as women set forth on business, to relocate, and for pleasure. These travelers wrote compellingly of crossing rivers and mountains, facing hunger, encountering native Americans, sleeping in taverns, and confronting slavery, expressing themselves in voices that differed in sensibility from those of male explorers and travelers."--Jacket
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xiii, 254 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
9780821416747, 082141674X
63108331
The language of travel : the practical and the picturesque
Ordinary travel : public houses and travel conditions
Writing into the Ohio frontier : genteel expectations and rustic realities
Literary crossroads : travel narrative, poetry, and novel
Capturing experience : travel narrative and letter, a comparative view