Spanish Women Travelers at Home and Abroad, 1850–1920
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Spanish Women Travelers at Home and Abroad, 1850–1920

From Tierra del Fuego to the Land of the Midnight Sun

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Spanish Women Travelers at Home and Abroad, 1850–1920

From Tierra del Fuego to the Land of the Midnight Sun

About this book

Between 1850 and 1920 women's travel and travel writing underwent an explosion. It was an exciting period in the history of travel, a golden age. While transportation had improved, mass tourism had not yet robbed journeys of their aura of adventure. Although British women were at the forefront of this movement, a number of intrepid Spanish women also participated in this new era of travel and travel writing. They transcended general societal limitations imposed on Spanish women at a time when the refrain "la mujer en casa, y con la pata quebrada" described most of their female compatriots, who suffered from legal constraints, lack of education, a husband's dictates, or little or no money of their own. Spanish Women Travelers at Home and Abroad, 1850–1920: From Tierra del Fuego to the Land of the Midnight Sun analyzes the travels and the travel writings of eleven extraordinary women: Emilia Pardo Bazán, Carmen de Burgos (pseud. Colombine), Rosario de Acuña, Carolina Coronado, Emilia Serrano (Baronesa de Wilson), Eva Canel, Cecilia Böhl de Faber (pseud. Fernán Caballero), Princesses Paz and Eulalia de Borbón, Sofía Casanova, and Mother María de Jesús Güell. These Spanish women travelers climbed mountain peaks in their native country, traveled by horseback in the Amazon, observed the Indians of Tierra del Fuego, suffered from el soroche [altitude sickness] in the Andes, admired the midnight sun in Norway, traveled to mission fields in sub-Saharan Africa, and reported on wars in Europe and North Africa, to mention only a few of their accomplishments. The goal of this study is to acquaint English-speaking readers with the narratives of these remarkable women whose works are not available in translation. Besides analyzing their travel narratives and the role of travel in their lives, Spanish Women Travelers includes many long excerpts translated into English for the first time.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. A Note on Translations
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction to the History of Spanish Women Travelers
  5. An Overview of Gender and Travel Writing
  6. Cecilia Böhl de Faber (b. Morges, Switzerland, 1796–d. Seville, 1877)
  7. Carolina Coronado (b. Almendralejo, 1820?–d. Lisbon, 1911)
  8. Emilia Serrano, Baronesa de Wilson (Granada, 1833?–d. Barcelona, 1923)
  9. Rosario de Acuña y Villanueva (b. Madrid, 1850 or 1851–d. Gijón, 1923)
  10. Emilia Pardo Bazán (b. La Coruña, 1851–d. Madrid, 1921)
  11. Eva Canel (b. Coaña [Asturias], 1857–d. Havana, Cuba, 1932)
  12. Sofía Pérez de Casanova (b. 1861 or 1862, Almeiras [Galicia], Spain–d. 1958, Poznan, Poland)
  13. Princess María Eulalia de Borbón (Madrid, 1864–Fuenterrabía, 1958)
  14. María de la Paz de Borbón, Princess of Spain and Princess of Bavaria (b. Madrid, 1862–d. Munich, 1946)
  15. Carmen de Burgos Seguí (b. Almería, 1867–d. Madrid, 1932)
  16. Spanish Missionary Nuns in Africa
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index
  19. About the Author