Anna Maria Falconbridge

-
Standard Name: Falconbridge, Anna Maria
Birth Name: Anna Maria Horwood
Married Name: Anna Maria Falconbridge
Married Name: Anna Maria DuBois
AMF was the author of a single travel book about Africa, published in 1794. It is important not only as travel writing about an area not generally covered by women, but also as a history of the early stages of the British-founded black colony of Sierra Leone and for its political commentary both on this and on the slave trade.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Charlotte Nooth
His De la littérature des Nègres in its original form reflects internationalism, anglophilia, and perhaps even proto-feminism. The title-page quotes Mary Robinson . The roll of honour of white activists for abolition and racial equality...

Timeline

September 1793
Effigies of anti-slavery leader William Wilberforce and radical Thomas Paine were burned together at Kingston, Jamaica: Anna Maria Falconbridge witnessed this on her roundabout voyage from Africa to England.

Texts

Parker, Mary Ann, Anna Maria Falconbridge, and Anna Maria Falconbridge. “A Voyage Round the World”. Maiden Voyages and Infant Colonies, edited by Deirdre Coleman, Leicester University Press, 1999, pp. 169-25.
Falconbridge, Anna Maria, and Mary Ann Parker. Maiden Voyages and Infant Colonies. Editor Coleman, Deirdre, Leicester University Press, 1999.
Falconbridge, Anna Maria. Two Voyages to Sierra Leone. Printed for the author, 1794.
Falconbridge, Anna Maria, Mary Ann Parker, and Mary Ann Parker. “Two Voyages to Sierra Leone”. Maiden Voyages and Infant Colonies, edited by Deirdre Coleman, Leicester University Press, 1999, pp. 45-168.