Set of 3 books by Women Travellers

a) Anna Harriette Leonowens, Life and Travel in India with Recollections of a Journey before the Days of the Railroads, Philadelphia: Henry T Coates, 1884

pp. 325 + 23 plates; hardbound with gilt text on the front board and the spine
8.2 x 5.6 in (20.5 x 14 cm)

By Leonowens of the King and I fame, in the court of the Siamese King in 19th century.

Anna Harriette Leonowens [1831-1915] was an Anglo-Indian travel writer, educator, and social activist. Her experiences in Siam (Thailand) were fictionalised in Margaret Landon's 1944 best-selling novel Anna and the King of Siam, as well as films and television series based on the book, most notably Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1951 hit musical The King and I. During the course of her life, Leonowens also lived in Aden, Australia, Singapore, the United States and Canada. Among other achievements, she co-founded the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.

The author is best known for her experiences as a Royal Governess for the King of Siam but was born in India and her mother was an Anglo-Indian (something she never mentioned for fear of prejudice).

b) Mary S Ware, The Old World through Old Eyes: Three Years in Oriental Lands, New York: G P Putnam’s Sons/ London: Knickerbocker Press, 1917

iv + pp. 565 including black and white portrait frontispiece and fifteen illustrations; hardbound with dustjacket
9 x 6 in (22.5 x 15 cm)

180 pages relate to her visits to the Indian princely states of Travancore, Mysore, Baroda, Udaipur, Benares, Jaipur and Kashmir. This book is a collection of letters written to her family during her trip around the world. Mary Ware was an American traveller.

c) Edith M E Baring-Gould, With Note-Book and Camera: A Winter Journey in Foreign Lands, London: Chursch Missionary Society, 1901

pp. viii, 104 with 84 photographs taken by the author with her Kodak camera. 47 of these are on India; publisher's brown cloth with illustrative decoration and gilt title to upper board, all edges gilt, marbled end papers
8.4 x 7 in (21 x 17.5 cm)

With a Preface by Sir W. Mackworth Young, Lieut-Governor of the Punjab.

(Set of three)

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