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Women s travel narratives recording journeys north and south along the eastern seaboard and west onto the Ohio frontier enhance our historical understanding of early America. Drawing extensively from primary sources, Traveling Women documents women s role in westward settlement and emphasizes travel as a culture-building event.
Susan Clair Imbarrato closely examines women s accounts of their journeys from 1700 to 1830, including Sarah Kemble Knight s well-known journal of her trip from Boston to New York in 1704 and many lesser-known accounts, such as Sarah Beavis s 1779 journal of her...

Sarah Gray Cary from Boston to Grenada will appeal to readers desiring a rare female perspective on colonial America and plantation life in the Caribbean.

Speaking to the range of female experience during Early America, this rich collection conveys the acts of bravery, protest, and survival of women that contributed to the formation of an empire. Letters, diaries, and narratives, among other texts, serve as the point of entry into the overlooked topic of the female body as a site of contestation.

The essays in this collection examine the connections between the forces of empire and women's lives in the early Americas, in particular the ways their narratives contributed to empire formation. Focusing on the female body as a site of contestation, the essays describe acts of bravery, subversion, and survival expressed in a variety of genres, including the saga, letter, diary, captivity narrative, travel narrative, verse, sentimental novel, and autobiography. The volume also speaks to a range of female experience, across the Americas and across time, from the Viking exploration to early...