Marianne North's travel writing : every step a fresh picture / Michelle Payne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Payne, Michelle, author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

North, Marianne, 1830-1890--Travel.

North, Marianne.

Botanical artists--Great Britain.

Botanical artists.

Women travelers--England.

Women travelers.

Botanical illustration--England--19th century.

Botanical illustration.

North, Marianne, 1830-1890.

Travel.

England.

Great Britain.

Genre:

autobiographies (literary works)

Autobiographies.

Biographies.

Travel writing.

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

279 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey : Kew Publishing, 2023.

Summary:

Excerpts from her personal correspondence and passages from her published autobiography combine to produce a vivid first-person account revealing her interests, opinions and experiences, along with all the pleasures and frustrations of prolonged overseas travel. Richly illustrated with facsimiles of letters and pen sketches she sent to friends, and reproductions of her celebrated oil paintings. The book relays pertinent details about North's life and considers her varied attitudes towards the people she met and the places she visited, including what her writings and paintings may suggest about her attitudes to empire and colonialism. A final chapter will cover her English homes, particularly her London flat, which she felt was "more like home than any other".

Contents:

1871-1875: painting on the spot

1875-1877: twenty months wandering amongst strangers

1877-1879: travels in India

1880-1885: representing the world's vegetation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

1842467956

9781842467954

OCLC:

1381200383