Yankees
in Gaslight Britain,
by Nigel Woodhead
A compendium of highlights from the best vintage travel writing.
Travel back in time to the foggy, gas-lit
Victorian London of Dickens, Sherlock Holmes and Jack the Ripper. Visit
all the famous sights and landmarks, plus pubs, gin-palaces, music halls and
East End slums; ride in horse-drawn cabs and omnibuses.
A guided literary tour in the company of a fascinating group of 19th century American
tourists…
Anglo-American “Special Relations” in the 19th Century
Annotated highlights, sometimes shocking or outspoken, often humorous, selected from over 30 classic eye-witness travel accounts (monographs, diaries, journals, collected letters, reports, travel guides) written between American independence and the end of Queen Victoria's reign.
After the War of Independence, Americans began to feel nostalgia for their or their parents' homelands in Europe. For those who had made money in the New World, the place to spend it was in the Old World. England and in particular London were bright beacons that beckoned from beyond the Atlantic. Many set out by sea, including literary figures such as Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Jack London, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry James - Innocents Abroad who were amazed by what they encountered. And yet there was already a sense of transatlantic Anglo-Saxon unity, the "special relationship" that would prosper through the wars of the 20th centuries.
Plus first-hand reports from a colorful and eccentric host of well-heeled merchants, tutting tourists, evangelists, bigots, a motley list of diplomats, former slaves, mavericks, misfits, prudes -- and New England ladies of independent spirit!
The extracts are thematically organized, framed with brief editorial comments (cameos of the original authors, historical and social context, comparisons and contrasts with contemporary life in Britain and the US).
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