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Women's Travel Writing, 1830-1930: Women's Studies Digitization Project
http://etrc.lib.umn.edu/wo
mtrav.htm

University of Minnesota, Wilson Library Electronic Text Research Center
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More than 25 works by women travelers who wrote between 1830 and 1930 are available here. Although the works selected focus on women from the United States or those who wrote about the United States, the texts’ subjects are geographically diverse. There are 10 works about travel in Africa; eight focus on Latin America. There are also a few texts about East Asia and Oceania, one about Europe—Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands—and two that cover trips around the world. The texts are typed rather than digitized scans of the original documents, and are fully searchable. In addition to this primary-source material, 10 images accompanying the writings of four authors, five enlargeable maps, and five portraits of the writers are available, as well as publication histories and 400-word biographical sketches for many of the authors. Note that not all the works are available in full text.

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