http://worldcat.org/entity/work/id/1376898224

Transatlantic travels in nineteenth-century Latin America European women pilgrims

This book studies the travel accounts of five "lady travelers" to Mexico, the Southern Cone, Brazil, and the Caribbean. As eye-witness accounts, their books record the rise of independent republics in Spanish America. Women's travels provide a fresh look at indigenous and African populations in the New World and analyze women's social conditions. Traveling as historians, social critics, ethnographers, and artists, Frances Erskine Inglis (1806-1882), Maria Graham (1785-1842), Flora Tristan (1803-1844), Fredrika Bremer (1801-1865), and Adela Breton (1849-1923) reshaped the map of nineteenth-century Latin America.

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