Here and There in Mexico: The Travel Writings of Mary Ashley Townsend, by Mary Ashley Townsend

Here and There in Mexico: The Travel Writings of Mary Ashley Townsend, by Mary Ashley Townsend

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Here and There in Mexico: The Travel Writings of Mary Ashley Townsend, by Mary Ashley Townsend

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 Mary Ashley Townsend was a novelist, newspaper columnist, and poet laureate of New Orleans who made several trips to Mexico with her daughter Cora during the last two decades of the 19th century. She collected her impressions of many aspects of life in that country—flora, fauna, architecture, people at work and play, fashion, society, food—and wrote about them during a time when few women engaged in solo travel, much less the pursuit of travel writing. Her collected work was still in progress when she died in a train accident in 1901, and was never published.

Renowned Latin Americanist Ralph Lee Woodward Jr. discovered Townsend’s manuscript, along with many of the author’s personal papers, in the Special Collections division of Tulane University’s Howard-Tilton Library. In addition to annotating the text, he has written a critical introduction to the work that provides excellent background information about the author and places the work in its historical and cultural context.Townsend’s writing provides an unusual feminine perspective on Mexico as she describes the country during the middle years of the Porfirio Diaz dictatorship, a pivotal time in Mexican history. Though Townsend does not delve heavily into politics her observations of people’s lives provide a valuable source for social historians of the period.Here and There in Mexico will make new contribution to the field of Latin American studies and to the travel literature genre, both as a primary source for historians and as a well-written account of a southern woman’s impressions of Mexico during a crucial period in that country’s development.  

Here and There in Mexico: The Travel Writings of Mary Ashley Townsend, by Mary Ashley Townsend

• Published on: 2015-06-20
• Released on: 2015-06-20
• Format: Kindle eBook

Here and There in Mexico: The Travel Writings of Mary Ashley Townsend, by Mary Ashley Townsend

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“Townsend’s descriptions of everyday life in provincial towns and in Mexico City—ranging from pulque production to bull fighting—add discerning insights into the social fabric of the land of Porfirio Diaz.” –John A. Britton, author of Revolution and Ideology: Images of the Mexican Revolution in the United States

 

About the Author

Ralph Lee Woodward Jr. is Neville G. Penrose Professor of Latin American Studies at TexasChristianUniversity in Forth Worth and author of Central America: A Nation Divided.

 

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Mexico at the turn of the century. By rick from Boston What a find! Published after about 100 years of sitting in a college library, this fascinating sory of this women's travels in pre-revolution Mexico is full of humor, great descriptions of people and places,interesting tidbits of history,and a genuine love of Mexico and it's people. It was the era of the hacienda and pulque was the drink of choice. Mexico city had a population of 250,000 people! I only wish she had carried a camera with her! I really enjoy reading books written as well as this one. Interesting and informative. I recommend it highly to anyone interested in Mexico's complicated history or just interested in a good read.

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