Celia Fiennes

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Standard Name: Fiennes, Celia
Birth Name: Celia Fiennes
CF was a remarkable, indeed a unique, travel-writer about her own country. Travelling in the later seventeenth and the early eighteenth century, and writing the account that has come down to us in the latter, she is an immediate (independent instead of employed) predecessor of Daniel Defoe in his role as national surveyor. She was not an influence, however, for her work took a century even to be quoted in print, and longer still to be printed itself.
Colour photograph of the Celia Fiennes Waymark: a marker unveiled in December 1998 on No Man's Heath in Cheshire to commemorate the 300th anniversary of Fiennes's "Great Journey", on which she passed that way. The sculpted stone represents both Fiennes and her horse.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Jan Morris
More than a decade later, in 1978, JM followed her own portrait of Oxford by editing The Oxford Book of Oxford, a quirky anthology of often very short anecdotes and other excerpts, aimed less...

Timeline

1697: An Act of Parliament encouraged magistrates...

Building item

1697

An Act of Parliament encouraged magistrates to set up signposts at confusing crossroads where travellers might otherwise take the wrong road.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Texts

Fiennes, Celia. “Editorial Note and Introduction”. The Illustrated Journeys of Celia Fiennes, edited by Christopher Morris, Macdonald; Webb and Bower, 1982, pp. 8-31.
Fiennes, Celia. The Illustrated Journeys of Celia Fiennes. Editor Morris, Christopher, Macdonald; Webb and Bower, 1982.
Fiennes, Celia, and George Macaulay Trevelyan. The Journeys of Celia Fiennes. Editor Morris, Christopher, Cresset Press, 1947.
Fiennes, Celia. Through England on a Side Saddle in the time of William and Mary. Editor Griffiths, Emily, Field and Tuer; Scribner and Welford, 1888.
Fiennes, Celia. Through England on a Side Saddle in the time of William and Mary. Cambridge University Press, 2010, http://www.cambridge.org/series/sSeries.asp?code=CLOR.