这些妇女旅行日记与书信来自于哈佛大学Radcliffe高级研究学院的收藏。学者们对于研究游记与生活日记有着越来越浓厚的兴趣，这一项目正适应了这两个研究的需要求。数据库收录了主要历史事件的第一手资料，以及妇女生活的详细兴趣与题材，提供了城市、文化与民俗的快照，描绘了现代旅游与旅行业的发展。内其容主要有：移民与日常生活，教务工作，一战，二战，中国的义和团运动，美国的边境生活，个人旅行启示录，教育，观光、假日与旅游，民俗、文化与休闲等。
Women's travel diaries and correspondence from the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
This world history resource offers students and researchers a window to the past and transports them across continents. From the everyday to the extraordinary, these rare diaries and the supporting correspondence describe the travel experiences, destinations and desires of nineteenth and twentieth century American women.
The project has wide ranging interdisciplinary appeal, offering first hand accounts of major historical events as reported by eye witnesses, detailing key interests and themes in women’s lives, providing snapshots of cities, cultures and customs, and charting the rise of modern tourism and the travel industry.
From the meticulous accounts of outings and sightseeing of the chaperoned young lady, to the impassioned descriptions of far continents by the determined explorer, these personal accounts are written by women of all ages, travelling for many different reasons, from all walks of life. They cover journeying for work, for pleasure, for charity, for enlightenment, by sea, air and land. The explorations range from vacations to intrepid adventures, and every type of trip in between.
Period Covered
- 1835 - 1976
Highlights
- Elizabeth Cary Agassiz’s scientific and cultural explorations of Brazil in the 1860s
- Lillian Schoedler’s remarkable world travels between 1927 and 1963
- Travel to countries within the British, French, Chinese and American empires and discussion of empire and nationalism, as well as the post-colonial world
- A variety of modes of transport, including sea voyages, road trips, wagon trains and air travel
- Motivations for travel including tourism, work, exploration, missionary work and pilgrimages
- Documents range from the first trip of a young student abroad to the spiritual journey of a retired woman seeking enlightenment
Source Archive
- The Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
Material Types
- Unique manuscripts
- Diaries
- Travel journals
- Correspondence
- Photographs
- Postcards and ephemera
Subjects
- Empire
- Tourism
- The environment
- Natural history
- Politics
- Spiritual enlightenment
- Urban history
- Cultural history
- Education