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.

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

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Notes on Translations
Acknowledgments
Introduction to the History of Spanish Women Travelers
An Overview of Gender and Travel Writing
OneCecilia Böhl de Faber (b. 1796 Morges, Switzerland-d. 1877, Sevilla): On the Therapeutic Value of Travel
TwoCarolina Coronado (b. Almendralejo, 1820?-d. Lisbon, 1911): A Melancholy Traveler
ThreeEmilia Serrano, the Baronesa de Wilson (b. Granada, 1833?-d. Barcelona, 1923): The Bard of the Americas
FourRosario de Acuña (b. Madrid, 1850?-d. Gijón, 1923): Spanish Mountain Landscapes
FiveEmilia Pardo Bazán (b. La Coruña,1851-d. Madrid, 1921): Discovering Spain and her Place in the World at the Turn of the Century
SixEva Canel (b. Coana [Asturias], 1857-d. Havana, Cuba, 1932): A Spanish Patriot in the Americas
SevenSofia Pérez de Casanova (b. 1861 or 1862, Almeiras [Galicia], Spain-d. 1958, Poznan, Poland): Poland and Russia through Spanish Eyes
Eight Princess María Eulalia de Borbón (Madrid, 1864-Fuenterrabía, 1958): A Spanish Princess in theAmericas
NineMaría de la Paz Borbón, Princess of Spain and Princess of Bavaria (b. Madrid, 1862 -- d. Munich, 1946): A Royal Pilgrim
TenCarmen de Burgos Seguí (b. Almería, 1867?-d. Madrid, 1932): World Traveler and First Spanish Woman War Correspondent
ElevenSpanish Missionary Nuns in Africa: The First Voyage of the Conceptionist Sisters to Fernando Po (Spanish Guinea), 1884-1885
Bibliography
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About the Author
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