By 读者服务部的谢尔比·沃尔夫
In May I 旅行ed to Europe for the first time, keeping a 旅行 日记 throughout the trip. It was probably the longest run at 杂志ing I’ve managed to keep, partly because I felt this experience was more noteworthy than my regular routine. More importantly, I didn’t want to forget the details of what I experienced. 旅行日记, 和一般的日记, allow us to record our daily lives, 通过思想, and observations on any given day. 多年以后, we can look back on what we wrote and experience that pesky yet pleasant sense of nostalgia (or, in the case of many a teenage-years 杂志, 尴尬).
To see how other 旅行ers had 杂志ed about the places I visited, I searched our online library catalog, 阿比盖尔, to find women’s 旅行 diaries of different kinds. Some are introspective; others read more like a daily log of events and observations. Many are text-only while others include drawings, watercolors, and ephemera. 的 旅行 日记 of 伊丽莎白·珀金斯·李 Shattuck, 例如, is accompanied by a sketchbook with scenes captured throughout the writer’s journeys between 1868 and 1870. 伊丽莎白·珀金斯·李, daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Perkins (Cabot) Lee kept this 日记 during her 旅行s in 意大利, 法国, 和英格兰 between January and May 1869.
In her 日记 Lee records daily activities, sights toured, and social visits. She takes particular interest in describing the art and sculpture in Rome, frequenting the Villa Borghese and the Sistine Chapel. Lee notes after a trip to the Vatican, “Michel Angelos’ Pieta grows up me each time I see it.” While in Rome she celebrated Carnival from a balcony trimmed with bouquets, 和朋友一起喝茶, and attended the Apollo 的atre, which she describes as “quite jolly and funny.“在她离开罗马之后, Lee 旅行ed by rail to Florence, 然后通过日内瓦, 里昂, and Dijon toward her final European stop of this 旅行 日记, 英格兰. She toured Eton and spent time admiring the art at the National Gallery and the Royal Academy of Arts in London.
Among the individuals mentioned in the 日记 are members of the Longfellow family, 包括托马斯·戈尔德·阿普尔顿, 欧内斯特·朗费罗, and Hattie Longfellow; Lee’s uncle Francis L. Lee; her cousins Edward Perkins, 玛丽·珀金斯, and Charles Callahan Perkins; her future husband Frederick Cheever Shattuck; George Bemis; Frederic Crowninshield; and members of the Warren, 潘恩, 《利记手机官网》, 柯蒂斯, 席沃, 还有很多其他家庭. A few entries discuss freedmen in America and the West Indies; American grievances against the British after the 内战; and the Fifteenth Amendment.
While a large number of diaries in the MHS collections focus on Western European 旅行s, 另一些则强调古巴之行, 新西兰, 加拿大, and the Midwestern United States. If you’re interested in learning more about nineteenth-century 旅行 and society – of if you’re simply in need of a vicarious vacation – 参观图书馆 for a closer look at 伊丽莎白·珀金斯·李 Shattuck’s 旅行 日记 and sketchbook, 以及其他的:
(有关更完整的列表，请参见 女性旅行ers-Diaries 在阿比盖尔.)
Mary Gardner Lowell diaries, 1823-1853. Diaries of Mary Gardner Lowell of Boston and Waltham, Massachusetts, 1823-1853. 旅行日记 describe a voyage to Cuba with her husband Francis Cabot Lowell and infant son George, 1831年12月18日- 1832年6月3日, 包括在哈瓦那的时间, on the slave plantations of the Matanzas province. Entries describe 旅行 conditions of the voyages and coaching, 景点看到, social and cultural observations, 朋友来看, 天气, 还有社交活动.
Lorenza Stevens Berbineau diaries, 1851-1869. Three personal diaries kept by Berbineau, 洛厄尔家的仆人, kept while on a trip to Europe with members of the family (1851-1852).
Anna Peabody Bellows 旅行 日记, 1864. Travel 日记 of Anna Huidekoper Peabody (later Bellows), 继续去英国旅行, 法国, 和瑞士, 1864年3月16日至8月14日. Entries describe the voyage via steamer from Boston, 还有观光, 购物, 社会呼吁, and other activities in Paris and other cities and towns. Includes pencil sketches and watercolors.
Aimee Rotch Sargent 旅行 diaries, 1874-1875. Diaries kept by Aimee Rotch Sargent, 1874-1875, while 旅行ing from New York to 英格兰 and through Europe with her husband, 温斯洛普萨金特, 描述一下海上航行, 她经常晕船, social gatherings and engagements with acquaintances, 公园, 博物馆, and other 参观文化机构.
Ann Eliza Perkins Adams 旅行 日记, ca. 1883-1884. Travel 日记 kept while on a trip by train from Boston to St. Louis and a voyage on the Mississippi River. Entries consist of short descriptions of sites seen from the train window; coach and carriage rides in St. Louis; and 旅行ing on the Mississippi River, including sites seen from the boat, 小镇参观, 活动参加, 汽船观察到.
Jane Cummings diaries, 1902-1949. June-September 1911 旅行 杂志 records her voyage to Spain, 阿尔及尔, 意大利, 奥地利, 瑞士, 法国, 和英格兰, 描述参观过的城市, 体系结构, 花园, 博物馆, 参观文化机构, 艺术作品, 同路人的故事, 还有天气.
玛莎一. 拉普旅行日记，1920-1921. 玛莎日记. 马萨诸塞州布罗克顿的拉普. while on a voyage from Boston to 新西兰, 4 November 1920-7 May 1921. Martha 旅行ed with her parents by train to Vancouver, 英属哥伦比亚, then on the passenger ship Niagara to 新西兰. Her 日记 describes daily life at sea including games played with other passengers, storms; and various places visited in 新西兰.