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Here and There in Mexico: The Travel Writings of Mary Ashley Townsend
Mary Ashley Townsend, Edited By Ralph Lee Woodward, Jr.
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Hardcover. Townsend was a novelist, columnist, and poet laureate of New Orleans who made several trips to Mexico during the last two decades of the 19th century. Her writing provides a feminine perspective on Mexico as she describes the country during the middle years of the Porfirio Diaz dictatorship. Editor(s): Woodward Jr, Ralph Lee (Neville G. Penrose Professor of Latin American Studies, Texas Christian University, USA). Num Pages: 354 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 3JH; WTLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 717. An excellent, clean copy
Mary Ashley Townsend was a novelist, newspaper columnist, and poet laureate of New Orleans who made several trips to Mexico with her daughter Cora during the last two decades of the 19th century. She collected her impressions of many aspects of life in that country - flora, fauna, architecture, people at work and play, fashion, society, food - and wrote about them during a time when few women engaged in solo travel, much less the pursuit of travel writing. Her collected work was still in progress when she died in a train accident in 1901, and was never published. Renowned ... Read more
Mary Ashley Townsend was a novelist, newspaper columnist, and poet laureate of New Orleans who made several trips to Mexico with her daughter Cora during the last two decades of the 19th century. She collected her impressions of many aspects of life in that country - flora, fauna, architecture, people at work and play, fashion, society, food - and wrote about them during a time when few women engaged in solo travel, much less the pursuit of travel writing. Her collected work was still in progress when she died in a train accident in 1901, and was never published. Renowned ... Read more
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Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
University of Alabama Press
Number of pages
354
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Number of Pages
354
Place of Publication
Alabama, United States
ISBN
9780817310585
SKU
KRS0019490
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About Mary Ashley Townsend, Edited By Ralph Lee Woodward, Jr.
Ralph Lee Woodward Jr. is Neville G. Penrose Professor of Latin American Studies at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth and author of Central America: A Nation Divided.
Reviews for Here and There in Mexico: The Travel Writings of Mary Ashley Townsend
Townsend's descriptions of everyday life in provincial towns and in Mexico City - ranging from pulque production to bull fighting - add discerning insights into the social fabric of the land of Porfirio Diaz. - John A. Britton, author of Revolution and Ideology: Images of the Mexican Revolution in the United States