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Transatlantic Women Travelers, 1688–1843 TRANSITS: LIT ER A TURE, THOUGHT & CULTURE, 1650–1850 Series Editors Kathryn Parker, University of Wisconsin— La Crosse Miriam Wallace, New College of Florida A long r unning and landmark series in long eighteenth- century studies, Transits includes monographs and edited volumes that are timely, transformative in their approach, and global in their engagement with arts, lit er a ture, culture, and history. Books in the series have engaged with visual arts, environment, politics, material culture, travel, theater and per for mance, embodiment, writing and book history, sexuality, gender, disability, race, and colonialism from Britain and Eu rope to the Amer i cas, the Far East, and the Middle East. Proposals should offer critical examination of artifacts and events, modes of being and forms of knowledge, material culture, or cultural practices. Works that make provocative connections across time, space, geography, or intellectual history, or that develop new modes of critical imagining are particularly welcome. Recent titles in the Transits series: Transatlantic W omen Travelers, 1688–1843 Misty Krueger, ed. Laurence Sterne’s “A Sentimental Journey”: A Legacy to the World W. B. Gerard and M- C. Newbould, eds. Hemi spheres and Stratospheres: The Idea and Experience of Distance in the International Enlightenment Kevin L. Cope, ed. Rewriting Crusoe: The Robinsonade across Languages, Cultures, and Media Jakub Lipski, ed. Narrative Mourning: Death and Its Relics in the Eighteenth- Century British Novel Kathleen M. Oliver Lothario’s Corpse: Libertine Drama and the Long- Running Restoration, 1700–1832 Daniel Gustafson Romantic Automata: Exhibitions, Figures, Organisms Michael Demson and Christopher R. Clason, eds. Beside the Bard: Scottish Lowland Poetry in the Age of Burns George S. Christian The Novel Stage: Narrative Form from the Restoration to Jane Austen Marcie Frank The Imprisoned Traveler: Joseph Forsyth and Napoleon’s Italy Keith Crook Fire on the Water: Sailors, Slaves, and Insurrection in Early American Lit er a ture, 1789–1886 Lenora Warren Community and Solitude: New Essays on Johnson’s Circle Anthony W. Lee, ed. The Global Words worth: Romanticism Out of Place Katherine Bergren For a full list of Transits titles, please visit our website: www . bucknelluniversitypress . org. Transatlantic Women Travelers, 1688–1843 Edited by MISTY KRUEGER LEWISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Names: Krueger, Misty, editor. Title: Transatlantic women travelers, 1688–1843 / edited by Misty Krueger. Description: Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2021. | Series: Transits: lit er a ture, thought & culture 1650–1850 | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2020027638 | ISBN 9781684482962 (paperback) | ISBN 9781684482979 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781684482986 (epub) | ISBN 9781684482993 (mobi) | ISBN 9781684483006 (pdf) Subjects: LCSH: Travelers’ writings, English— History and criticism. | En glish prose lit er a ture— Women authors— History and criticism. | En glish prose lit er a ture—17th century— History and criticism. | En glish prose lit er a ture—18th century— History and criticism. | En glish prose lit er a ture—19th century— History and criticism. | Travel in lit er a ture. | Women lit er a ture. | Women travelers in lit er a ture. | Women travelers— History. Classification: LCC PR756.T72 T725 2021 | DDC 820.9/9287— dc23 LC rec ord available at https:// lccn . loc . gov / 2020027638 A British Cataloging- in- Publication rec ord for this book is available from the British Library. This collection copyright © 2021 by Bucknell University Press Individual chapters copyright © 2021 in the names of their authors All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher. Please contact Bucknell University Press, Hildreth- Mirza Hall, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA 17837-2005. The only exception to this prohibition is “fair use” as defined by U.S. copyright law. The paper used in this publication meets the requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences— Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992. www . bucknelluniversitypress . org Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press Manufactured in the United States of Amer i ca This book is dedicated to both the students who enjoy learning about eighteenth- and nineteenth- century women’s transatlantic travels, and the scholars who love writing about them. CONTENTS Introduction: Tracing the Lives of Transatlantic Women Travelers 1 Misty Krueger PART ONE: (Pseudo)Historical Women’s Travels 1 “ Little Atlas”: Global Travel and Local Preservation in Maria Sibylla Merian’s The Metamorphosis of the Insects of Surinam 23 Diana Epelbaum 2 Thresholds of Livability: Climate and Population Relocation in Anna Maria Falconbridge’s Two Voyages to Sierra Leone 48 Shelby Johnson 3 Transatlantic Female Solidarity: Two Women Social Explorers and Their Views on Nineteenth- Century Latin American Women 64 Grace A. Gomashie 4 “The Fair Daughters of Terra Nova”: Women in the Settler Cultures of Early Nineteenth- Century Newfoundland 81 Pam Perkins 5 Busty Buccaneers and Sapphic Swashbucklers on the High Seas 95 Ula Lukszo Klein
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