Women's Travel Journals (Bookshelf)

Here are entered the published journals and diaries of 19th and 20th century women variously writing as an American vacationer in New York, British colonials in a Georgia (U.S.) plantation, Brazil, and South Africa, and WWI nurses. See Also the Wars - WWI Bookshelf for additional titles.

19th Century

• The Story of a Summer Or, Journal Leaves from Chappaqua  by Cecilia Pauline Cleveland (1850 - )
  This little volume is in no sense a work of the imagination, but a simple record of a pleasant summer’s residence at Chappaqua (Westchester County, New York) written between May 28 and October 5, 1873, for the amusement of herself and friends.
• A Trip to Manitoba  by FitzGibbon, Mary
• Journal of a Voyage to Brazil  by Maria Graham
  An Englishwoman’s account of a sea voyage to Brazil and of her residence of many months there from 1821 to 1823, together with historical, political, and descriptive sketches of the country.
• Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation, 1838-1839  by Frances Anne Kemble (1809-1893)
  The following diary was kept in the winter and spring of 1838-9, on an estate consisting of rice and cotton plantations, in the islands at the entrance of the Altamaha, on the coast of Georgia.
• South African Memories  by Sarah Isabella Augusta Wilson (1865-1929)
  Life in British South Africa before and during the Boer War (1899-1902).
• By Water to the Columbian Exposition  by Wisthaler, Johanna S.
• A Woman who went to Alaska  Sullivan, May Kellogg
• Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands  Seacole, Mary

20th Century

• Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915  by Anonymous
  An English nurse and member of an unidentified religious order (though probably belonging to the Church of England) records detailed experiences looking after and tending to the wounded in the trenches and field hospitals of France during World War I.
• Field Hospital and Flying Column; Being the Journal of an English Nursing Sister in Belgium & Russia  by Violetta Thurstan (1879-1978)
  More war stories told by an English nurse assigned to the Belgian and Russian Red Cross during WWI.