From Beacon Hill to the Crystal Palace : The 1851 Travel Diary of a Working-Class Woman.
Title:
From Beacon Hill to the Crystal Palace : The 1851 Travel Diary of a Working-Class Woman.
Author:
Berbineau, Lorenza Stevens.
ISBN:
9781587294129
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (161 pages)
Contents:
Acknowledgments -- Note on the Diary and Text -- Introduction 1 A Working-Class Woman's View of Europe -- The Diary -- The Voyage Out -- Enjoying England -- To Paris and Beyond -- Switzerland and Italy -- Germany and Holland -- Belgium and the Return to Paris -- The Return Home -- Afterword -- Notes to the Diary -- Works Cited -- Index.
Abstract:
Because prior studies of American women's travel writing have focused exclusively on middle-class and wealthy travelers, it has been difficult to assess the genre and its participants in a holistic fashion. One of the very few surviving working-class travel diaries, Lorenza Stevens Berbineau's account provides readers with a unique perspective of a domestic servant in the wealthy Lowell family in Boston. Staying in luxurious hotels and caring for her young charge Eddie during her six-month grand tour, Berbineau wrote detailed and insightful entries about the people and places she saw.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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