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Drawing on the Land
Millicent Mary Chaplin
其他書名
The New World Travel Diaries and Watercolours of Millicent Mary Chaplin, 1838-1842
出版Penumbra Press, 2004
主題Art / Techniques / DrawingArt / History / GeneralArt / CanadianArt / Individual Artists / GeneralArt / Techniques / Watercolor PaintingTravel / Essays & Travelogues
ISBN18941312239781894131223
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=e50SAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Chaplin was not only an acute observer of life around her, but also a competent artist. Mrs. Chaplin's diaries are sometimes amusing, almost always insightful, and occasionally tedious, but they reveal much about the colonial society of British North America between 1838 and 1842, as well as about the boisterous United States. Like a latter-day Jane Austen, Chaplin was highly xenophobic and an intense anglophile, and her diaries show her interest in manners, breeding, crops, gardens, and scenery. Chaplin's impressions of America demonstrate an active and inquiring mind, though not necessarily an open and receptive one. She was interested in canals, steamboats, hotel accommodation, railways, and travel by stagecoach. She was a very Victorian woman, interested in progress but confident in the correctness of her sense of social propriety.