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Anne Elwood

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33: 193: 139: 122:. The couple set off for India in 1825 and it was claimed that she was the first British woman to travel overland to India. She described her journey using the device of letters home which she published after her return as 143:, published in 1841, describes the lives of 29 leading women writers. Elwood knew several of the subjects and she was given access to their documents. The book was well regarded and was used as a source for the 302:
Narrative of a Journey Overland from England, by the Continent of Europe, Egypt, and the Red Sea, to India, Including a Residence There, and Voyage Home, in the Years 1825, 26, 27, and 28 By Mrs Colonel
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Narrative of a Journey Overland from England, by the Continent of Europe, Egypt, and the Red Sea, to India, Including a Residence There, and Voyage Home, in the Years 1825, 26, 27, and 28 By Mrs Colonel
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among her leading women, a poet and travel writer who had also travelled to India, though Elwood thought Roberts's journey of two months in 1839 was too fast.
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Her second book was also remarkable. Elwood claims in the preface that she could not find a book about women writers and so she decided to write one.
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She married on 9 January 1824 to Major Charles William Elwood. He was about 15 years older than her and he had worked for many years for the
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in 1830. The book describes her journey to India via Egypt and it is illustrated by Elwood and her husband. She advised on the need for
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Deborah Manley, ‘Elwood , Anne Katharine (1796–1873)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
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Memoirs of the literary ladies of England from the commencement of the last century
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Anne was born in 1796 to Edward Jeremiah Curteis, a writer and independent
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Women Travellers in Egypt: From the Eighteenth to the Twenty-first Century
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Narrative of a Journey Overland from England to India
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Elwood was carried between two camels
Clayton Priory
Member of Parliament for Sussex
Battle
East India Company
riding habits
evening dresses
Memoirs of the literary ladies of England from the commencement of the last century
Dictionary of National Biography
Emma Roberts
AMS Press
Clayton Priory
Vol. I
Vol. II
Memoirs of the literary ladies of England from the commencement of the last century
Vol. I
Vol. II




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Anne Elwood
Women Travellers in Egypt: From the Eighteenth to the Twenty-first Century
ISBN
978-977-416-570-2


Memoirs of the literary ladies of England
title ID 659

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