Andrews, Evangeline Walker et al. “Introduction, Appendices”. Journal of a Lady of Quality, Third Edition, Yale University Press, 1923, pp. 1 - 19, 256.
Janet Schaw
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Standard Name: Schaw, Janet
Used Form: Jen. Schaw
Antigua), then to North Carolina in what was soon to become the United States of America, then home again via an extended visit to Lisbon in Portugal. Schaw is a sharp-eyed observer, intelligent, opinionated, and conservative or reactionary.
, whose fluent and polished style suggests that she was well accustomed to writing, was a late-eighteenth-century Scotswoman who left a single text: a letter-form journal of travels. With some relations she sailed from Scotland to the Caribbean (where they acquired some months' experience of the slave-based economy of Timeline
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Texts
Schaw, Janet. Journal of a Lady of Quality. Editors Andrews, Evangeline Walker and Charles McLean Andrews, Third Edition, Yale University Press, 1939.