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From Beacon Hill to the Crystal Palace : the 1851 travel diary of a working-class woman / by Lorenza Stevens Berbineau; edited by Karen L. Kilcup.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Berbineau, Lorenza Stevens.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Working class women--Massachusetts--Boston--Diaries.
- Working class women.
- Women travelers--Europe--History--19th century.
- Women travelers.
- Europe--Description and travel.
- Europe.
- Berbineau, Lorenza Stevens--Diaries.
- Berbineau, Lorenza Stevens.
- Lowell family.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (161 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Because prior studies of American women's travel writing have focused exclusively on middle-class and wealthy travelers, it has been difficult to assess the genre and its participants in a holistic fashion. One of the very few surviving working-class travel diaries, Lorenza Stevens Berbineau's account provides readers with a unique perspective of a domestic servant in the wealthy Lowell family in Boston. Staying in luxurious hotels and caring for her young charge Eddie during her six-month grand tour, Berbineau wrote detailed and insightful entries about the people and places she saw
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- NOTE ON THE DIARY AND TEXT
- INTRODUCTION
- A Working-Class Woman's View of Europe
- THE DIARY
- "WE ARE HAVEING A PLEASENT TIME"
- The Voyage Out
- "A BEAUTIFULL PROSPECT "
- Enjoying England
- "EVERY BODY SEEMS HAPPY & INDEPENDENT"
- To Paris and Beyond
- "THE BELLS ARE CHIMEING AMONG THE MOUNTAINS"
- Switzerland and Italy
- "ALL THE LIVEING IS VERY GOOD INDEED"
- Germany and Holland
- "EVERY BODY SEEMS HAPPY AND GAY"
- Belgium and the Return to Paris
- "I SAT FOR A LONG TIME WRAPED UP IN THOUGHTS"
- The Return Home
- AFTERWORD
- NOTES TO THE DIARY
- WORKS CITED
- INDEX.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-143) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-58729-412-5
- OCLC:
- 56109548
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