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This important new collection explores representations of late seventeenth- through mid-nineteenth-century transatlantic women travelers across a range of historical and literary works. While at one time transatlantic studies concentrated predominantly on men's travels, this volume highlights the resilience of women who ventured voluntarily and by force across the Atlantic--some seeking mobility, adventure, knowledge, wealth, and freedom, and others surviving subjugation, capture, and enslavement. The essays gathered here concern themselves with the fictional and the historical, national and geographic location, racial and ethnic identities, and the configuration of the transatlantic world in increasingly taught texts such as The Female American and The Woman of Colour, as well as less familiar material such as Merian's writing on the insects of Surinam and Falconbridge's travels to Sierra Leone. Intersectional in its approach, and with an afterword by Eve Tavor Bannet, this essential collection will prove indispensable as it provides fresh new perspectives on transatlantic texts and women's travel therein across the long eighteenth century.

Travelers' writings, English --- History and criticism. --- seafaring, pirates, women writers, travel, transatlanticism, late seventeenth century, mid-nineteenth-century, transatlantic women travelers, Atlantic, mobility, adventure, knowledge, wealth, freedom, subjugation, capture, enslavement, historical, national, geographic location, racial, ethnic identities, The Female American, The Woman of Colour, transatlantic world, Intersectional, Sierra Leone, eighteenth century, global travel, local preservation, climate, population, Settler Cultures, Newfoundland, High seas, Female Suffering, Matriarchal Authority, England, Gendered Politics, Jane Austen, Maria Nugent, Aphra Behn, Maria Sibylla Merian, Anna Maria Falconbridge, Flora Tristan, Frances Calderon de la Barca, Anne Bonny, Mary Read, Unca Eliza Winkfield, Leonora Sansay, Phebe Gibbes, Susan Smith, Mary Elizabeth Brenton, Anne Aplin, Henrietta Prescott, Frances Simpson, Mrs Selby, Emma Corbett, Imoinda, Olivia Fairfield, Sophia Goldborne.