Jenkins Wood, J: Spanish Women Travelers at Home and Abroad

Jennifer Jenkins Wood is associate professor of Spanish at Scripps College.

Spanish Women Travelers acquaints English-speaking readers with the travel writings of eleven extraordinary women, Emilia Pardo Bazán, Carmen de Burgos, Rosario de Acuña, Carolina Coronado, Emilia Serrano, Eva Canel, Fernán Caballero, Princesses Paz and Eulalia de Borbón, Sofia Casanova, and Mother María de Jesús Güell, whose travels took them throughout their homeland, to the farthest reaches of Europe, South into Africa, and across the Atlantic to the length of the Americas.

List of IllustrationsNotes on TranslationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction to the History of Spanish Women TravelersAn Overview of Gender and Travel WritingOneCecilia Böhl de Faber (b. 1796 Morges, Switzerland-d. 1877, Sevilla): On the Therapeutic Value of TravelTwoCarolina Coronado (b. Almendralejo, 1820?-d. Lisbon, 1911): A Melancholy TravelerThreeEmilia Serrano, the Baronesa de Wilson (b. Granada, 1833?-d. Barcelona, 1923): The Bard of the AmericasFourRosario de Acuña (b. Madrid, 1850?-d. Gijón, 1923): Spanish Mountain LandscapesFiveEmilia Pardo Bazán (b. La Coruña,1851-d. Madrid, 1921): Discovering Spain and her Place in the World at the Turn of the CenturySixEva Canel (b. Coana [Asturias], 1857-d. Havana, Cuba, 1932): A Spanish Patriot in the AmericasSevenSofia Pérez de Casanova (b. 1861 or 1862, Almeiras [Galicia], Spain-d. 1958, Poznan, Poland): Poland and Russia through Spanish EyesEight Princess María Eulalia de Borbón (Madrid, 1864-Fuenterrabía, 1958): A Spanish Princess in theAmericasNineMaría de la Paz Borbón, Princess of Spain and Princess of Bavaria (b. Madrid, 1862 -- d. Munich, 1946): A Royal PilgrimTenCarmen de Burgos Seguí (b. Almería, 1867?-d. Madrid, 1932): World Traveler and First Spanish Woman War CorrespondentElevenSpanish Missionary Nuns in Africa: The First Voyage of the Conceptionist Sisters to Fernando Po (Spanish Guinea), 1884-1885BibliographyPrimary sourcesSecondary sourcesAbout the AuthorIndex