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Maiden Voyages and Infant Colonies
Two Women's Travel Narratives of the 1790s
ISBN: 0718501497
ISBN-13: 9780718501495
Format: Hardcover
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"...a bleak, intriguing comparison of the fate of differing colonial projects. Both were written by women who were forced to support themselves after their husbands died in service." -- Ben Ball
-- Times Literary Supplement
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Continuum Intl Pub Group
Published date: 1999
Size: 6.25 x 9.5 inches
Weight: 1.3 pounds
Pages: 247
Publisher's Notes
In the 1780s in Britain, two very different places -- Sierra Leone and Botany Bay -- were mooted as possible sites for a penal colony. In the end, Botany Bay won the day and Sierra Leone became instead an experimental self-governing colony for ex-Slaves, the distant flagship of a vigorous popular movement at home against the slave trade. This fully annotated edition of Anna Maria Falconbridge's Two Voyages to Sierra Leone (1794) and Mary Ann Parker's A Voyage Round the World (1795) brings together in one volume the first published accounts by women of these new sites of British colonization. Laying the texts alongside one another brings into illuminating conjunction Britain's concurrent, late eighteenth-century systems of transportation and resettlement, convictism and slavery. Their republication in modern format will also help to focus current debates about the constitution of national, racial and sexual identities and the relationship between imperial and authorial power. Two Voyages to Sierra Leone is a lively and controversial text. Written as a series of letters to an intimate female friend, it is principally concerned to expose the bungling, hypocrisy and greed of an African imperial venture run by some of Britain's leading abolitionists. It is an important text for exploring some of the complexities surrounding women's intervention in the pro and anti-slavery debates of the age. Recently married to a slave-trade surgeon turned passionate abolitionist, Falconbridge charts the demise of her marriage amidst flirtations with the local slave traders and eventual defection from abolitionism. Her pro-slavery position is striking for its alliance with strong anti-colonial andpro-woman views. Mary Ann Parker's account of the first few years of settlement at Port Jackson covers social visiting and picnicking, the unique flora and fauna and observations on many of the colony's leading players. There are some forthright comments on the horrors of transportation and a 'manners and customs' portrait of local aborigines under the rubric 'Observations on the Slave Trade'.
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Maiden Voyages and Infant Colonies: Two Women's Travel Narratives of the 1790s
Coleman (Deirdre) (Anna Maria Falconbridge and Mary Ann Parker)
London: Leicester University Press, 1998. 247pp, illustrated, bright clean copy with no markings or annotations. Contains Anna Maria Falconbridge 'Two Voyages to Sierra Leone' and Mary Ann Parkes 'A Voyage Round the World'. . Hard Back. Fine/No dust Wrapper. ( more information) Offered by Hobgoblin Books (United Kingdom)
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