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" Here and there in Mexico : "
edited by Ralph Lee Woodward, Jr.
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BL
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846820
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Townsend, Mary Ashley,1832-1901.
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Here and there in Mexico : : the travel writings of Mary Ashley Townsend /\ edited by Ralph Lee Woodward, Jr.
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| Publication Statement
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Tuscaloosa :: University of Alabama Press,, ©2001.
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1 online resource (xv, 332 pages)
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081731363X
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0817310584
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9780817310585
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Includes index.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Editor's Preface; 1. General Remarks Concerning Mexico; 2. Existing Routes to Mexico by Sea and Land; 3. Down the Mississippi from New Orleans; 4. Across the Gulf to Tampico; 5. Tuxpán to Vera Cruz; 6. Vera Cruz; 7. A Trip to Jalapa; 8. Fort San Juan de Ulúa and Departure from Vera Cruz; 9. Córdoba; 10. Orizaba; 11. Scenes around Orizaba; 12. Puebla and Cholula; 13. Mexico City; 14. Bull Fight; 15. Scenes around Mexico City; 16. Mexico City's Major Attractions; 17. Life, Dress, and Customs in the Mexican Capital; 18. Family Life in Mexico
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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. Townsend 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."
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"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."--Jacket.
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Townsend, Mary Ashley,1832-1901-- Travel-- Mexico.
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Townsend, Mary Ashley,1832-1901.
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Authors, American-- 19th century, Biography.
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Authors, American.
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BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Historical.
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Manners and customs.
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TRAVEL-- Mexico.
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Travel.
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Mexico, Description and travel.
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Mexico, Social life and customs.
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Mexico.
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| Dewey Classification
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917.204/81
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F1215.T69 2001eb
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17.97bcl
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18.06bcl
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7,26ssgn
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74.26bcl
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Woodward, Ralph Lee.
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