Research Catalog

Title

Journal of a lady of quality : being the narrative of a journey from Scotland to the West Indies, North Carolina, and Portugal, in the years 1774-1776 / Janet Schaw ; edited by Evangeline Walker Andrews in collaboration with Charles McLean Andrews ; introduction to the Bison Books edition by Stephen Carl Arch.

Author

Schaw, Janet, approximately 1731-approximately 1801.

Publication

Lincoln : University of Nebraska, c2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Andrews, Evangeline Walker.
• Andrews, Charles McLean, 1863-1943
• Arch, Stephen Carl

Description

xi, 341 p. : ill., maps; 21 cm.

Subject

• Schaw, Janet, approximately 1731-approximately 1801 > Diaries
• Schaw, Janet, approximately 1731-approximately 1801 > Travel
• Scots > Diaries
• Women travelers > Diaries
• North Carolina > Description and travel > Early works to 1800
• West Indies > Description and travel > Early works to 1800
• Lisbon (Portugal) > Description and travel > Early works to 1800

Genre/Form

• Diaries
• Early works
• Reisebericht 1774-1776.

Note

• Originally published: New Haven : Yale University Press, 1934.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The voyage to the West Indies -- Antigua and St. Christopher -- Residence in North Carolina -- Sojourn to Lisbon -- Appendices: The highland emigration ; The Martin family ; "Olivees" and the Hamiltons ; Brunswick ; Description of North Carolina ; Wilmington ; James Innes and Francis Corbin ; James Murray and John Rutherford ; The Rutherford children ; The children's inheritance ; A group of provincial leaders ; A few North Carolina loyalists ; Archibald Neilson ; Captain John Abraham Collet.

ISBN

0803259530 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

• ^^2005011384
• 9780803259539

OCLC

• 60245386
• SCSB-12857115

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library