Anna Brassey

Anna Brassey 's writing arose out of her husband's professional travels, and began as private letters to her father covering intimate details of her family life at sea. On publication it made her a celebrated travel writer during the later nineteenth century. Besides shorter separate works she produced half a dozen substantial books, many of which went through a series of editions, and was also a contributor to several periodicals. Her observations reflect rather narrowly the prejudices of her race, class, and nation, and provide insight into Victorian Britain's empire and imperial attitudes, in addition to giving a domestic perspective on ocean-going travel in this period.