Travels in the United States, etc. during 1849 and 1850

Engaging and informative, Lady Emmeline's journals describe her mid-nineteenth century travels and her impressions of America and its people.

Emmeline Stuart-Wortley (Author)

9781108003353, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 24 September 2009

328 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.64 kg

Published in 1851, Lady Emmeline Stuart Wortley's account of her travels through the Americas during the mid nineteenth century represents an early example of the travel writing genre. The United States was becoming an increasingly popular tourist destination for Europeans at this time, and Lady Emmeline's writings present a quintessentially British impression of America and its people. Volume I of this three-volume work begins with Lady Emmeline's arrival in New York in 1849, and the reader accompanies her to Boston, Philadelphia, Washington and New Orleans before returning to New York. Written in an engaging and conversational tone, the volumes are both informative and entertaining, fulfilling the author's aim to 'amuse' with 'the gossip of travel.'

Preface
1. Arrival at New York
2. Detained at Albany
3. Difficulty of conveying the impression caused by a first view of the Falls of Niagara
4. Port Talbot
5. Return to New York
6. Boston
7. Plans for the future
8. Return to Boston
9. Plymouth
10. Green Harbour, the seat of Daniel Webster
11. Visit to Mr and Mrs Prescott at Nahant
12. The Blind Asylum at Boston and Laura Bridgeman
13. Bridgeport
14. Philadelphia
15. The City of Washington
16. Discomforts of travelling over the Alleghanies
17. Description of Louisville
18. A conversation in a coach
19. The steamer from Louisville
20. The Mississippi
21. The St. Charles Hotel at New Orleans
22. Mobile
23. Boston as a commercial city
24. Bustle in the streets of New York.

Subject Areas: History of the Americas [HBJK]