From Beacon Hill to the Crystal Palace [[electronic resource] ] : the 1851 travel diary of a working-class woman / / by Lorenza Stevens Berbineau; edited by Karen L. Kilcup
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| Autore: |
Berbineau Lorenza Stevens
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| Titolo: |
From Beacon Hill to the Crystal Palace [[electronic resource] ] : the 1851 travel diary of a working-class woman / / by Lorenza Stevens Berbineau; edited by Karen L. Kilcup
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| Pubblicazione: | Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, 2002 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (161 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 914.04/285 |
| 914.04285 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Working class women - Massachusetts - Boston |
| Women travelers - Europe - History - 19th century | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Europe Description and travel |
| Altri autori: |
KilcupKaren L
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-143) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | From Beacon Hill to the Crystal Palace |
| ISBN: | 1-58729-412-5 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910777443503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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