Life In Mexico, During A Residence Of Two Years In That Country. By Madame C_______ De La B____.With A Preface, By W.H.Prescott.

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8vo. pp. xiv, 437. music in the text. modern half morocco, t.e.g. First London Edition (?). Sabin and NUC also cite a Chapman and Hall London edition of the same year with slightly different collation: pp. xii, 436. Including remarks on politics, carnivals, convents and churches, bull-fighting, gambling, servants, feasts and festivals, opera and theatre, leading men, volcanoes, Indian superstitions, &c. The author was the Scottish wife of the Spanish Minister to the United States, who was sent on a special mission to Mexico after Independence. "One of the classic writings of nineteenth-century travel.due to her position, [she] was able to become intimately acquainted with Mexican society and had access to any information she sought.This is probably the most important record of the social life of the country at that time" (Hill). "This is the earliest and most balanced first-hand account of Mexico to be written by a woman." (Robinson) According to Robinson, her book was so detailed that it was used by the American army as a guide during the campaign against Mexico in 1847. Hill p. 43. Robinson, Wayward Women, p. 233. cfSabin 9889. N° de ref. del artículo MMafe, M59

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