Townsend, M: Here and There in Mexico

Mary Ashley Townsend was a novelist, newspaper columnist, and poet laureate of New Orleans who made several trips to Mexico with her daughter Cora during the last two decades of the 19th century. She collected her impressions of many aspects of life in that country and wrote about them during a time when few women engaged in solo travel. Ralph Lee Woodward has annotated the text, and written a critical introduction to the work that provides excellent background information.