The unlikely heroines of their own travel narratives, Amy Morris Bradley and Nancy Prince recount long and difficult journeys across the Atlantic and through the Caribbean, riding mules and falling ...into sinkholes, suffering seasickness and evading kidnappers. Bradley travels from Maine to San Juan, Costa Rica, in 1853, remaining in the city for four years before returning to the States. Her unpublished travel diary records the steamship journey that leaves her prostrate with seasickness, her dizzying ride on mule back along the treacherous cliffs of the overland route across the Isthmus of Panama, and her ingenuity in starting a life
Afterword Jennifer Bernhardt Steadman
Traveling Economies,
10/2020
Book Chapter
So at the end of our journey, we return to the Honorable Miss Impulsia Gushington, the heroine of Harper’s New Monthly Magazine’s parody of women’s solo travel, whom we met in the introduction on her ...runaway camel. Confiding her impulsive decision to travel to the pages of her journal (which well-meaning friends encourage her to publish on her return), the fictional Impulsia provides a stark contrast to the thoughtful, competent, ragged-edge travelers we have met in Traveling Economies. Ridiculous from the start, Impulsia imagines herself a romantic travel heroine, and indulges herself not just with the trip itself, but with
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