Buy this book on-line MULLEN, RICHARD: : Birds of Passage: Five Englishwomen in Search of AmericaLONDON.GERALD DUCKWORTH & CO. LTD.,1994. ISBN 0715624296.
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Hundreds of British visitors to America in the 19thC wrote accounts of their travels.Most male travellers devoted their
books to some particular topic reflecting their own background,from exhaustive studies of prisons to the quality of sermons.Women writers tended both to see the broader picture and to be particularly
concerned with daily life rather than with
institutions.They wrote about manners, food,servants and children - precisely the
topics that fascinate us most today.
The five women whose colourful stories are told here cover all aspects of experience: Rebecca Burlend dictated a moving account of life on the frontier;the
controversial feminist Fanny Wright campaigned against slavery,marriage, religion and capitalism; Fanny Trollope wrote an extremely critical account which remains one of the best-known books on America; Lady Emmeline Stuart Wortley described the country in glowing terms and
predicted its future as a world power; Catherine Hopley became a governess on a slave plantation and observed the tragic coming of the civil war.
Some of their accounts annoyed their former hosts: the President of Harvard denounced these 'Birds of Passage' and their books.Their stories bring 19thC America to life and reveal enduring aspects of the 'special relationship' between England and the USA.
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