Table of Contents; List of Figures viii; Acknowledgments ix; Introduction 1; part 1. frontier identities, 1837?1880 15; 1. A House, a Home, a Nation: Mariquita Sánchez's Recuerdos del Buenos Ayres Virreynal 17; 2. Queen of the Interior: Lina Beck-Bernard's Le Rio Parana 39; part 2. shifting frontiers, 1880-1900 53; 3. Eduarda Mansilla de García's Recuerdos de Viaje: "Recordar es Vivir" 55; 4. Interlude in the Frontier: Lady Florence Dixie's Across Patagonia 67; 5. Traveling/Teaching/Writing: Jennie Howard's In Distant Climes and Other Years 78; part 3. shifting identities, 1900-1930 87
6. Traveler/Governess/Expatriate: Emma de la Barra's Stella 897. Globe-Trotting Single Women 94; 8. The Spiritual Trip: Delfina Bunge de Gálvez's Tierras del Mar Azul 117; Notes 123; Bibliography 131; Index 143
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