Journal of a lady’s travels round the world: with illustrations from sketches by the author. Alternate title: A lady’s travels round the world

Journal of a lady’s travels round the world: with illustrations from sketches by the author. Alternate title: A lady’s travels round the world

Women
Diaries
Travel literature
voyages
British Columbia

This source is a journal/diary which has been published into a book focusing on the voyages of F.D Bridges and her husband who were both anglo-canadian elites. It provides the reader with greatly detailed insights about the areas and geographical location of towns in British Columbia through hand drawn maps and sketches. This account of a woman from British Columbia travelling the world gives us a great insight to the position that women held within society during the 19th century. This source focuses on the luxuries and lifestyle that a woman of Anglo Canadian background experienced as she voyaged around the Americas and Europe. The source leads to a wider range of themes such as the differences in social class as it provides the reader with prices of services and goods in various locations based upon a multitude of provinces.

Bridges. F.D

London: John Murray
University of British Columbia Library-rare books and special collections


https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/bcbooks/items/1.0221969#p10z-3r360f:women%20and%20divorce

1883

Lauren-Ann Saunders

University British Columbia
Public Domain

English

Textual - printed: published journal

19th century British Columbia