03319nam 2200649 a 450 991095594650332120251116230622.00-8214-4212-0(CKB)1000000000521662(OCoLC)191935394(CaPaEBR)ebrary10156430(SSID)ssj0000284989(PQKBManifestationID)11248339(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000284989(PQKBWorkID)10262736(PQKB)10958098(MiAaPQ)EBC3026924(Au-PeEL)EBL3026924(CaPaEBR)ebr10156430(BIP)35538471(BIP)13159063(EXLCZ)99100000000052166220060111d2006 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrTraveling women narrative visions of early America /Susan Clair Imbarrato1st ed.Athens Ohio University Pressc20061 online resource (268 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8214-1674-X Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-245) and index.The language of travel : the practical and the picturesque -- Ordinary travel : public houses and travel conditions -- Writing into the Ohio frontier : genteel expectations and rustic realities -- Literary crossroads : travel narrative, poetry, and novel -- Capturing experience : travel narrative and letter, a comparative view.Women's travel narratives recording journeys north and south along the eastern seaboard and west onto the Ohio frontier enhance our historical understanding of early America. Drawing extensively from primary sources, Travelling Women document's women's role in westward settlement and emphasizes travel as a culture-building event. Susan Clair Imbarrato closely examines women's accounts of their journeys from 1700 to 1830, including Sarah Kemble Knight's well-known journal of her trip from Boston to New York in 1704 and many lesser-known accounts, such as Sarah Beavis's 1779 journal of her travel to Ohio via Kentucky and Susan Edwards Johnson's account or her 1801-2 journey from Connecticut to North Carolina. In the women's keen observations and entertaining wit, readers will find bravado mixed with hesitation, as women set forth on business, to relocate, and for pleasure.Travelers' writings, AmericanHistory and criticismAmerican prose literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticismTravel writingHistory18th centuryTravel writingHistory19th centuryWomen travelersUnited StatesHistoryUnited StatesDescription and travelTravelers' writings, AmericanHistory and criticism.American prose literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticism.Travel writingHistoryTravel writingHistoryWomen travelersHistory.810.9/320922Imbarrato Susan Clair803420MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910955946503321Traveling women4472322UNINA