In 1821, Maria Dundas Graham sailed for South America on H.M.S.
Doris, a ship sent to protect British mercantile interests in that
volatile region. After her husband, the ship's captain Thomas
Graham, died en route, the newly widowed Maria Graham landed in
Valparaiso, Chile. Resisting all efforts to hustle her back to
England, Graham, a professional writer and highly educated woman,
rented herself a cottage in the Chilean--not the British--section
of Valparaiso and traveled through Chile for nine months until
driven out by a major earthquake and the threat of civil war.
The resulting Journal of a Residence in Chile (1824) tells the
gripping story of a gothic heroine in a dangerous but fascinating
new land. The author has an eye for detail and a gift for
storytelling, and so she creates a travel narrative with a
compelling plot and vividly realized characters.
Among the first travel narratives authored by a woman, Graham's
Journal establishes literary strategies for travel texts to follow
and shows clear differences from male narratives of the same
period. The Journal, with Jennifer Hayward's illuminating new
biographical and critical essays and appendices, is also invaluable
for scholars and general readers interested in Latin America.
Graham provides one of the few firsthand accounts in English of the
independence movements in South America, meets with many of the
major historical figures involved, provides detailed historical and
political readings of events, and depicts Chile of the 1820s in
accurate and loving detail.
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