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Townsend Mary Ashley <1832-1901.> |
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Here and there in Mexico : the travel writings of Mary Ashley Townsend / / edited by Ralph Lee Woodward, Jr |
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Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2001 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (351 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Authors, American - 19th century |
Mexico Description and travel |
Mexico Social life and customs |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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