1st Edition
Victorian Lady Travellers in Asia - A Collection of Travel Writings Part 1, 5 Vols
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 the period of early modernization. These writings—together with many plates and photographs (which are reproduced here)—represent a variety of Western women’s views on Asian culture within a fascinating period of westernization.
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, St Marianna University School of Medicine
