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Victorian Lady Travellers in Asia - A Collection of Travel Writings: Part 1, 5 Vols book cover

1st Edition

Victorian Lady Travellers in Asia - A Collection of Travel Writings Part 1, 5 Vols

Edited By Rie Shidooka Copyright 2007
2150 Pages
by Edition Synapse

Following the reprint of Recollections by Marianne North, a leading lady traveller in the Victorian era, Edition Synapse has initiated a series of facsimile collections of travel writing by Victorian women on Asia in the nineteenth century. Victorian Lady Travellers in Asia is the first in a series of four collections of five volumes each by British lady travellers who came to Japan and China in... Read more

CONTENTS

Volume 1

A Voyage in the "Sunbeam": Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months

by Mrs Brassey (Brassey, Annie Allnutt)

London : Longmans, Green and Co., 1878, xv, 504 p., 14 plates

Volumes 2–3

Wanderings in China, 2 vols.

by C.F. Gordon Cumming (Gordon Cumming, Constance Frederica)

Edinburgh ; London : W. Blackwood, 1886

Vol.1: vi, 382p., 4 plates

Vol.2: vi, 370p., 5 plates

Volume 4

Newfoundland to Cochin China by the Golden Wave, New Nippon, and the Forbidden City

by Mrs Howard Vincent (Vincent, Ethel Gwendoline)

with Reports on British Trade and Interests in Canada, Japan, and China,

by Col. Howard Vincent

London : Sampson Low, Martson , Martson & Co., 1892

xii, 404p., 13 plates

Volume 5

When We Were Strolling Players in the East

by Louise Jordan Miln

2nd ed., London : Osgood, McIlvaine, 1895

xii, 354 p., 25 plates

Biography

Rie Shidooka

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