Women Travelers Bibliographic Database

Number of records found: 62

Ascanio, Jennifer H. "White Men Don't Have Juju: An American Couple's Adventure Through Africa." Chicago: Noble Press. 1992. 345p.

Balfour, Clara L. "A Sketch of Hannah Kilham." London: W. and F.G. Cash. 1854. 60p. [Hannah Kilham (British)(1774-1832)].

Bedinger, R.D. "Althea Brown Edmiston." (In) Winsborough, Hallie P. and Timmons, Sarah L.V. (eds.). Glorious Living: Informal Sketches of Seven Women Missionaries of the Presbyterian Church, U.S. Atlanta: Presbyterian Church, U.S., Committee on Women's Work. 1937. [Althea Brown Edmiston (American)(1874-1937)].

Birkett, Deborah J. "Spinsters Abroad: Victorian Lady Explorers." London: Basil Blackwell. 1989. 300p. [Mary Henrietta Kingsley (British)(1862-1900)] and [Mary Eliza Bakewell Gaunt (Australian)(1872-1942)].

Buckland, Augustus R. "West African Pioneers." (In) Buckland, Augustus R. Women in the Mission Field. New York: Thomas Whittaker. 1895. pp. 39-51. [Marion Goodall (British)] and [Mrs. Davies (British)( -1815)] and [Mrs. Brown (British)( -1817)] and [Mrs. Huddlestone (British)] and [Mrs. Hawkins (British)] and [Mrs. Dawson (British)(1799-1826)] and [Mrs. Marshall (British)( -1830)].

Cadbury, M.H. "The Life of Amanda Smith: The American Sybil, the Christian Saint." Birmingham: Cornish Brothers. 1916. 88p. [Amanda Smith (American)(1837-1915)].

Cameron, Charlotte (Wales-Almy) (British)( -1946). "A Woman's Winter in Africa, a 26,000 Mile Journey." London: Stanley Paul. 1913. 403p.

Christensen, Matthew J. "Strategies of Placement/Production of Identity: Adelaide Smith Casely Hayford as African Victorian Traveler." Ufahamu. Volume 23 #1 1995. pp. 21-34. [Adelaide Smith Casely Hayford (Sierra Leone/British)(1868-1960)].

Church, Mary (British). "Sierra Leone: or, the Liberated Africans, in a Series of Letters From a Young Lady to Her Sister in 1832 and 1834." London: Longmans. (Authored Anonymously). 1835. 49p.

Clarke, Mary Lane (American) and Clarke, George E. "American Wesleyan Methodist Missions of Sierra Leone, West Africa." Syracuse, New York: Wesleyan Methodist Publishing Association Printing. 1910?. 256p.

Coleman, Deidre. "Sierra Leone, Slavery, and Sexual Politics: Anna Maria Falconbridge and the 'Swarthy Daughter' of Late 18th Century Abolitionism." Women's Writing: The Elizabethan to Victorian Period. Volume 2 #1 1995. pp. 3-25. [Anna Marie Falconbridge (British)( -1792)].

Colville, Zelie Isabelle (Richaud De Preville) (French/British)( -1930). "Round the Black Man's Garden." Edinburgh/London: Blackwood and Sons. 1893. 344p.

Cooper, Joyce L. "They Called Her Ya: The Story of Ruth Saunders." Salem, Ohio: Allegheny Publications. 1992. 254p. [Ruth Saunders (American)(1916- )].

Corey, Vickie Hyde (American)(1954- ). "The Glad Game." Washington: Review and Herald Publishing Association. 1979. 156p.

Dickson, Mora. "The Powerful Bond: Hannah Kilham: 1774-1832." London: Dodson. 1980. 252p. [Hannah Kilham (British)(1774-1832)].

Early, Julie E. "'Monsters of the Deep': The Woman Traveller and Later Victorian Women's Travel Narrative." Ph.D. Dissertation: University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. 1991. 316p. [Mary Henrietta Kingsley (British)(1862-1900)] and [Margaret Fountaine (British)(1862-1940)].

Early, Julie E. "'There is Much to be Said for Belonging to the Most Powerful Nation on Earth': Margaret Fountaine's Private Manuscript." (In) Early, Julie E. 'Monsters of the Deep': The Woman Traveller and Later Victorian Women's Travel Narrative. Ph.D. Dissertation: University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. 1991. pp. 228-293. [Margaret Fountaine (British)(1862-1940)].

Falconbridge, Anna Marie (British)( -1792). "Two Voyages to Sierra Leone During the Years 1791-2-3: in a Series of Letters Narrative of Two Voyages to the River Sierra Leone During the Years 1791-1793." London: Printed for the Author. 1794. 297p.

Falconbridge, Anna Marie (British)( -1792) and Coleman, Deirdre (ed.). "Anna Maria Falconbridge, 'Two Voyages to Sierra Leone (1794)'." (In) Coleman, Deirdre (ed.). Maiden Voyages and Infant Colonies: Two Women's Travel Narratives of the 1790s. Leicester, Great Britain: Leister University Press. 1999. pp. 22-168.

Falconbridge, Anna Marie (British)( -1792). "Anna Maria Falconbridge: Narrative of Two Voyages to the River Sierra Leone During the Years 1791-1792-1793 and the Journal of Isaac Dubois With Alexander Falconbridge: An Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa." Liverpool, Great Britain: Liverpool University Press. (Edited by Christopher Fyfe). 2000. 238p.

Ferguson, Moira. "Anna Maria Falconbridge." (In) Ferguson, Moira. Subject to Others: British Women Writers and Colonial Slavery, 1670-1834. New York/London: Routledge. 1992. pp. 198-208. [Anna Maria Falconbridge (British)( -1792)].

Ferguson, Moira. "Hannah Kilham: Gender, the Gambia, and the Politics of Language." (In) Richardson, Alan and Hofkosh, Sonia (eds.). Romanticism, Race, and Imperial Culture, 1780-1834. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. 1996. [Hannah Kilham (British)(1774-1832)].

Ferguson, Moira. "Anna Maria Falconbridge and Sierra Leone: 'The Reality of a Coloniser'." (In) Ansell-Pearson, Keith and Parry, Benita and Squires, Judith (eds.). Cultural Readings of Imperialism: Edward Said and the Gravity of History. London/New York: Lawrence and Wishart/ St. Martin's Press. 1997. pp. 247-266. [Anna Marie Falconbridge (British)( -1792)].

Foote, Mrs. Henry Grant (British). "Recollections of Central America and the West Coast of Africa." London: T.C. Newby. (By Mrs. Foote). 1869. 221p.

Fountaine, Margaret (British)(1862-1940). "Butterflies and Late Loves: The Further Travels and Adventures of a Victorian Lady." London: Collins. (Edited by W.F. Cater). 1986. 141p.

Fowler-Lunn, Katharine Stevens (American)(1902-1997). "The Gold Missus: A Woman Prospector in Sierra Leone." London/New York: Allen and Unwin /Norton. 1938. 303p.

Gaunt, Mary Eliza Bakewell (Australian)(1872-1942). "Alone in West Africa." London/New York: T. Werner Laurie/ Scribner. 1911. 404p.

Hachten, Harva (American). "Kitchen Safari: A Gourmet's Tour of Africa." New York: Atheneum. 1970. 274p.

Hallowell, Dorothy Saylor (American). "Letters From Africa." Kutztown, Pennsylvania: Kutztown Pub. Co. 1962. 123p.

Hargrave, Carrie Guerphan (American). "African Primitive Life: As I Saw it in Sierra Leone, British Africa." Wilmington, North Carolina: Wilmington Printing Co. 1944. 115p.

Harrow, Sharon. "Trading in the Blush: Domesticating the Colony in Anna Maria Falconbridge's Narrative." Journal of African Travel-Writing. #5 October, 1998. pp. 25-37. [Anna Marie Falconbridge (British)( -1792)].

Hughson, Shirley Carter (American)(1867-1949). "The Green Wall of Mystery; Venture and Adventure in the Hinterland of West Africa." West Park, New York: Holy Cross Press. 1928. 222p.

Huxley, Elspeth Joscelyn Grant (British)(1907-1997). "Four Guineas: A Journey Through West Africa." London: Chatto and Windus. 1954. 303p.

Jacobs, Sylvia M. "Three Afro-American Missionary Women in Africa, 1882-1904." (In) Keller, Rosemary and Queen, Louise L. and Thomas, Hilah F. (eds.). Women in New Worlds: Historical Perspectives on the Wesleyan Tradition. Nashville: Abingdon Press. 1982. pp. 268-280. [Amanda Smith (American)(1837-1915)] and [Sarah E. Gorham (American)(1832-1894)] and [Fanny Jackson Coppin (American)(1837-1913)].

Kilham, Alexander. "A Short Account of the Life and Death of Mrs. Sarah Kilham. To Which is Added, Three Sermons Preached on the Day She Was Interred." Leeds, Great Britain. 1797. 84p.

Kilham, Hannah (British)(1774-1832). "Report on a Recent Visit to the Colony of Sierra Leone." London: William Phillips. 1828. 24p.

Kilham, Hannah (British)(1774-1832). "Present State of the Colony of Sierra Leone: Being Extracts of Recent Letters From Hannah Kilham." Lindfield, Great Britain: C. Green. 1832. 26p. [Hannah Kilham (British)(1774-1832)].

Kilham, Hannah (British)(1774-1832) and Biller, Sarah (ed.). "Memoir of the Late Hannah Kilham: Chiefly Compiled From Her Journal." London: Darton and Harvey. (Editor Was Hannah Kilham's Daughter). 1837. 506p. [Hannah Kilham (British)(1774-1832)].

Kingsley, Mary Henrietta (British)(1862-1900). "Travels in West Africa, Congo Francais, Corisco and the Cameroons." London: Macmillan. 1897. 743p.

Kingsley, Mary Henrietta (British)(1862-1900). "West African Studies." London/New York: Macmillan. 1899. 639p.

Knott, William M. "Foot Soldier of the Empire: Hannah More and the Politics of Service." Ph.D. Dissertation: George Washington University, Washington, D.C. 2006. 487p. [Hannah More (American)(1808-1868)].

Ledger, Fiona S. "Mr. Bigstuff and the Goddess of Charm: Parties, Cars, Love and Ambition South of the Sahara." London: Picador. 2000. 290p.

Martin, Tony. "Discovering African Roots: Amy Ashwood Garvey's Pan-Africanist Journey." Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Volume 17 #1 1997. pp. 118-126. [Amy Ashwood Garvey (Jamaican)(1897-1969)].

McEwan, Cheryl. "How the 'Seraphic' Became 'Geographic': Women Travellers in West Africa, 1840-1915." Ph.D. Dissertation: Loughborough University of Technology, Department of Geography, Loughborough, Great Britain. 1995. [Zelie Isabelle (Richaud De Preville) Colvile (French/British)( -1930)] and [Mrs. Henry Grant Foote (British)] and [Anna Hinderer (British)(1827-1870)] and [Mary Henrietta Kingsley (British)(1862-1900)] and [Constance Belcher Larymore (British)] and [Elizabeth Helen Callander Melville (Scottish)] and [Mary Mitchell Slessor (Scottish)(1848-1915)].

McEwan, Cheryl. "Paradise or Pandemonium? West African Landscapes in the Travel Accounts of Victorian Women." Journal of Historical Geography. Volume 22 #1 January, 1996. pp. 68-83. [Zelie Isabelle (Richaud De Preville) Colvile (French/British)( -1930)] and [Mary Henrietta Kingsley (British)(1862-1900)] and [Constance Belcher Larymore (British)] and [Elizabeth Helen Callander Melville (Scottish)].

Melville, Elizabeth Helen Callander (Scottish). "A Residence at Sierra Leone, Described From a Journal Kept on the Spot and From Letters Written to Friends at Home." London: J. Murray. 1849. 335p.

Mott-Smith, May (British)(1879-1952). "Africa From Port to Port." New York: Van Nostrand. 1930. 424p.

O'Loughlin, Katrina. "'Our Floating Prison': Anna Maria Falconbridge and Travel to the River Sierra Leone." Journal of African Travel-Writing. #5 October, 1998. pp. 38-49. [Anna Marie Falconbridge (British)( -1792)].

Packer, Joy (Petersen)(South African)(1905-1977). "Apes and Ivory." London: Eyre and Spottiswoode. 1953. 400p.

Peterson, Martha Dunlop (American). "African Adventure: Peace Corps Assignment in Sierra Leone." M.A. Thesis: Sonoma State University, Sonoma, California. 1987. 236p.

Sadow, Sue (American). "Into Africa With the Peace Corps: Sue Sadow, First Senior Citizen Volunteer, Remembers Sierra Leone in the 60s." Westminster Colorado: Beaumont Books. 1986. 128p.

Shaffer, Tanya (American). "Somebody's Heart is Burning: A Woman Wandered in Africa." New York: Vintage Books. 2003. 324p.

Sheldon, W.G. "Obituary - Margaret Elizabeth Fountaine." Entomologist. Volume 73 1940. pp. 193-195. [Margaret Fountaine (British)(1862-1940)].

Singer, Caroline (American)(1888-1963). "White Africans and Black." New York: W.E. Rudge or Norton. (By Mrs. Cyrus LeRoy Baldridge). 1929. 120p.

Spencer, Sue Way (American)(1908- ). "African Creeks I Have Been Up." New York: McKay. 1963. 212p.

Springer, Eva Alice (American). "As I Saw Africa: Land of Tragedy and Triumph." Cincinnati: Powell and White. 1936. 240p.

Tata, Fabian T. "Blessed Mothers: African-American Missionary Women in English-Speaking Colonial Africa, 1850-1950. Their History, Their Work and Their Impact." Ph.D. Dissertation: Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida. 2002. 510p.

Taylor, Marshall W. "The Life, Travels, Labors, and Helpers of Mrs. Amanda Smith: The Famous Negro Missionary Evangelist." Cincinnati, Ohio: Cranston and Stowe. 1887. 63p. [Amanda Smith (American)(1837-1915)].

Tinling, Marion. "Elspeth Huxley, 1907-1997." (In) Tinling, Marion. Women Into the Unknown: A Sourcebook on Women Explorers and Travelers. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. 1989. pp. 133-139. [Elspeth Joscelyn Grant Huxley (British)(1907-1997)].

Twells, A. "So Distant and Wild a Scene: Language, Domesticity and Difference in Hannah Kilham's Writing From West Africa, 1822-1832." Women's History Review. Volume 4 #3 1995. pp. 301-318. [Hannah Kilham (British)(1774-1832)].

Wilson, Libby (British). "Unexpected Always Happen: Journal of a Doctor in Sierra Leone." Edinburgh: Argyll Press. 1996. 191p.

Wrong, Margaret (Canadian)(1887-1948). "West African Journey: In the Interests of Literacy and Christian Literature, 1944-45." London: Edinburgh House. 1946. 79p.