Here and there in Mexico : the travel writings of Mary Ashley Townsend / edited by Ralph Lee Woodward, Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Townsend, Mary Ashley, 1832-1901.

Contributor:

Woodward, Ralph Lee, Jr., 1934-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authors, American--19th century--Biography.

Authors, American.

Mexico--Description and travel.

Mexico.

Mexico--Social life and customs.

Townsend, Mary Ashley, 1832-1901--Travel--Mexico.

Townsend, Mary Ashley.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (351 p.)

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Mary Ashley Townsend was a novelist, newspaper columnist, and poet laureate of New Orleans who made several trips to Mexico with her daughter Cora during the last two decades of the 19th century. She collected her impressions of many aspects of life in that country-flora, fauna, architecture, people at work and play, fashion, society, food-and wrote about them during a time when few women engaged in solo travel, much less the pursuit of travel writing. Her collected work was still in progress when she died in a train accident in 1901, and was never published

Contents:

Contents; Editor's Preface; 1. General Remarks Concerning Mexico; 2. Existing Routes to Mexico by Sea and Land; 3. Down the Mississippi from New Orleans; 4. Across the Gulf to Tampico; 5. Tuxpán to Vera Cruz; 6. Vera Cruz; 7. A Trip to Jalapa; 8. Fort San Juan de Ulúa and Departure from Vera Cruz; 9. Córdoba; 10. Orizaba; 11. Scenes around Orizaba; 12. Puebla and Cholula; 13. Mexico City; 14. Bull Fight; 15. Scenes around Mexico City; 16. Mexico City's Major Attractions; 17. Life, Dress, and Customs in the Mexican Capital; 18. Family Life in Mexico

19. Shrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe, Chapultepec Castle, and MoreIndex

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8173-1363-X

OCLC:

817893171