Global InformationMatilda Charlotte Houstoun information
Matilda Charlotte Houstoun | |
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| Born | 16 August 1811 Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom |
| Died | 1 June 1892 (aged 80) Pimlico, London, England |
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| Literary movement | Women's 19th century literature, Sentimental Fiction, Novel of Experience |
| Notable works | Texas and the Gulf of Mexico; or Yachting in the New World, Hesperos or Travels in the West, Recommended to Mercy, Only a woman's life; by one who saved it |
Matilda Charlotte Houstoun (née Jesse; 16 August 1811 – June 1892) was a British travel writer, novelist, biographer, and women's right activist.[1][2][3][4] She is best known for her series of travel writings, particularly Texas and the Gulf of Mexico (1844) and Hesperos, and their observations about African-American life during the times of the Confederate Deep South.[5][6][7] Later on, she turned her pen from novels to social reform, particularly on the rights of working class women and single mothers.[8] During her lifetime, her best known work was Recommended to Mercy, a female-driven "yellow-back" novel published in 1862.[1][9]
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- ^ Travelers In Texas 1761-1860, Marilyn McAdams Sibley, 1967
- ^ Basic Texas Books: An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Works for a Research Library, John Holmes Jenkins, 1988
- ^ The Sweetness of Life: Southern Planters at Home,Eugene D. Genovese, Douglas Ambrose, 2017 p. 80
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- ^ Notable Women Authors edited by, Troy J Bassett, Catherine Pope, p. 347 see here