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The Englishwoman in America

by Isabella Lucy Bird

Miss Bird traveled through eastern Canada and the United States as a young twenty-something woman in 1854. She wrote extensive observations on society, Atlantic steam-ship travel, hotels, politics, religion, the scenery, and every other thing that caught her eye or engaged her thinking. Her observations are candid and definitely not what we would call politically correct. An interesting look at pre-Civil War America.

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English

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English

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1856

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Isabella Lucy Bird

United Kingdom

Isabella Lucy Bird, married name Bishop, was a nineteenth-century British explorer, writer, photographer, and naturalist. With Fanny Jane Butler she founded the John Bishop Memorial hospital in Srinag...

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