This copy is inscribed on the half-title page: “With the Author’s compliments / Subscription copy.”
One of the few nineteenth-century accounts of Colombia written by a woman, Carnegie-Williams’ work is a lightly edited transcription of her diary. Settling off from Southampton on 2 august 1881, they stopped at St Thomas, Port-au-Prince, then Kingston, Colon (Panama), Carthagena, Barranquilla where she took Spanish lessons for a week, before heading south until she arrived at Bogota on 24 September. During her time in Bogota, she relates her social activities along with detailed descriptions of the city and its surroundings, flora and fauna, to provide a rare insight into the city and ex-pat life during this time.
Uncommon enough to have escaped the notice of Jane Robinson, whose Wayward Women remains the standard bibliography of women travellers, Libraryhub locates a single copy in Oxford, with OCLC listing three electronic copies.
Not in Wayward Women; McVicker, M.F., Women Adventurers (McFarland, 2008) p.207 (incorrectly dating it 1884).
