EAN: 9783631582800

NEW ZEALAND THROUGH THE EYES OF AMERICAN WOMEN ...

This book was awarded the Calliopean Prize of the Goethe University Frankfurt for the best
thesis in American and British studies in 2007. New Zealand appeared relatively late on the
general tourist map of the 19th century. Famous for its exotic flora and fauna  a visible
native population  and women's suffrage  it also drew American tourists to its shores: How did
American travelers perceive New Zealand and its society? Did they connect in a special way to
this country? What were their experiences and how did they write about it? Very few travel
accounts by American women were published in this period  but these historical documents offer
subjective accounts of the author's time and present individual experiences and views on New
Zealand: Abby Jane Morrell accompanied her husband on a sealing expedition in the South Seas
(1833). Mrs. Woolley's tour through the South Seas included New Zealand and she described the
tourist highlights of that time (1906). And Carrie Francis Robertson's unpublished travel
journal gives a detailed account of her travels through New Zealand in 1912.

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