From Beacon Hill to the Crystal Palace : the 1851 travel diary of a working-class woman /
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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
©2002.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | 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. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 148 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-143) and index. |
ISBN: | 1587294125 9781587294129 |