COLONIAL DISCOURSES
Series One: Women, Travel & Empire, 1660-1914

Part 1: Early travel accounts by women, and women's experiences in India, Africa, Australasia and Canada

EARLY TRAVEL ACCOUNTS BY WOMEN

REEL 1
Katharine Evans d1692
This is a short relation of some of the cruel sufferings ... of Katharine Evans and Sarah Cheevers
110 k. 216(3) London, 1662
A brief history of the voyage of Katharine Evans and Sarah Cheevers, to the island of Malta ... and their cruel sufferings in the Inquisition there.
Scicluna 1058 London, 1715

Celia Fiennes (1662-1741)
Through England on a Side Saddle
G A Gen. top 4° 125 London, 1888

Elizabeth Justice (1703-1752)
Voyage to Russia
2059 e. 6 York, 1739

REEL 2
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762)
Letters to the right honourable Lady M-y W-y M-e: written during her travels in Europe, Asia and Africa (3 vols) Italy and Turkey
Travelled with husband’s embassy
God w. subt. 123-125, 126* London, 1763

Elizabeth Anspach, Baroness Craven (1750-1828)
A journey through the Crimea to Constantinople, in a series of letters
Vet. A5d.91 London, 1789

REEL 3
Sarah Aust (Murray) (1744-1811)
A companion and useful guide to the beauties of Scotland to the Lakes ... and to the ... district of Craven. [2 vols] [MS notes by W Beckford] Pioneer of the Guidebook
Arch. H.e. 15/1, 15/2 London, 1799, 1803

REEL 4
Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823)
A journey Holland, Germany, Lake Disctrict
II. 142. Art. Subt London, 1795

Mariana Starke (1762?-1838)
Information and directions for travellers on the continent
204 e.240 London, 1828

REEL 5
Mariana Starke (1762?-1838) (continued)
Travels in Italy, between 1792 and 1798; containing a view of the late revolutions. Also a suppl comprising instructions for travelling in France [2 vols]
20503 e.164/1.164/2 London, 1802

Charlotte Eaton (1788-1859)
Narrative of a residence in Belgium during the campaign of 1815; and a visit to the field of Waterloo, by an Englishwoman
8° x 289 BS London, 1817

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