Three Visits to America

An 1884 account of the American lecture tours of this influential women's rights campaigner, founder of the Victoria Press.

List of contents

Preface; 1. First arrival in America; 2. Reception at Steinway Hall; 3. The President at the White House; 4. Railroads, drawing-room cars, sleepers, and hotel cars; 5. A visit to the University of Michigan; 6. Vassar College; 7. The Quaker city; 8. Boston, its east wind, culture, and English look; 9. English and American receptions contrasted; 10. New Year's Day [1884] in Colorado; 11. Brigham Young and the 'true inwardness of Mormonism'; 12. The President's Secretary, Mr George Reynolds; 13. American hotel despotism; 14. Strange contrasts afforded; 15. Strawberries in February; 16. The orange groves at Los Angeles; 17. Divorce; 18. Occupations open to women in 1836, when Harriet Martineau visited America, contrasted with those of to-day; 19. The American girl; 20. Anthony Trollope on English, American, and Australian newspapers; 21. The traveller's appreciation of New York after journeys to the interior; 22. Canada.

Summary

Three Visits (1884) describes three American lecture tours by the Victorian printer Emily Faithfull, a women's rights campaigner and founder of the Victoria Press, a printing establishment for women. Faithfull addresses topics including women's employment, education and divorce; her work remains a key source for the history of liberal feminism.

Product details

• Authors: Emily Faithfull
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.07.2011
• EAN: 9781108033404
• ISBN: 978-1-108-03340-4
• No. of pages: 400
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - North American History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales; HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Social and cultural history