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Journal of a Lady of Quality: Being the Narrative of a Journey from Scotland to the West Indies, North Carolina, and Portugal, in the Years 1774 to - Softcover

Schaw, Janet

 
9780803259539: Journal of a Lady of Quality: Being the Narrative of a Journey from Scotland to the West Indies, North Carolina, and Portugal, in the Years 1774 to
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0803259530 ISBN 13: 9780803259539
Publisher: Bison Books, 2005

Synopsis

Alexander and Janet Schaw, Scottish siblings, began a journey in 1774 that would take them from Edinburgh to the Caribbean Islands and then to America. Part of the early wave of Scottish colonization, the pair visited family and friends who had already established themselves in the colonies. Journal of a Lady of Quality is Janet Schaw’s account of this voyage through letters to a friend in Scotland. The letters describe the sights, scenery, and social life she encountered, but they also reveal the political atmosphere of an America on the verge of revolution. Stephen Carl Arch provides a new introduction for this Bison Books edition.

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About the Author

Charles McLean Andrews (1863–1943) was a professor of American history at Yale University. He and his wife, Evangeline Walker Andrews, also edited Jonathan Dickinson’s Journal. Stephen Carl Arch is a professor of English at Michigan State University. He is the author of After Franklin: The Emergence of Autobiography in Post-Revolutionary America, 1780–1830 and Authorizing the Past: The Rhetoric of History in Seventeenth-Century New England.

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Publisher
Bison Books
Publication date
2005
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0803259530
ISBN 13 
9780803259539
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
342
Editor
Andrews Evangeline Walker, Andrews Charles McLean