Sarah K. Bolton, 'Pages from an Autobiography: Edited by her son', chapters 6-12
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- Title
- Sarah K. Bolton, 'Pages from an Autobiography: Edited by her son', chapters 6-12
- Date
- c. 1871 - c. 1886
- Traveller
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- Bolton, Sarah (Knowles)
- Reference
- A-11, Box 1, folder 4
- Region
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- North America
- Europe
- Russia
- Country
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- United States
- England
- Scotland
- Wales
- France
- Italy
- Switzerland
- Austria
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Sweden
- Russia
- Germany
- Ireland (Republic of)
- Places
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- Ohio
- Lucerne
- Dresden
- Munich
- Salzburg
- Vienna
- Prague
- Berlin
- Amsterdam
- Holland
- Zurich
- The Hague
- Hull
- Laxa
- Stockholm
- Liverpool
- Manchester
- Birmingham
- Glasgow
- Genoa
- Hanover
- Bergen
- Geneva
- Chamonix
- Warwick Castle
- Madisonville
- Cincinnati
- Cleveland
- New York
- Boston
- London
- Brighton
- Cork
- Oxford
- Cambridge
- Edinburgh
- Coventry
- Stratford-upon-Avon
- Paris
- Rome
- Naples
- Florence
- Milan
- Turin
- St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Southampton
- Stirling
- Queenstown (Cobh)
- Description
- Sarah Bolton's autobiography (Sarah Knowles Bolton: Pages from an intimate autobiography, published in Boston in 1923) contains details of her work as a journalist and a writer, and her involvement in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. It includes details of pamphlets she wrote in support of the temperance movement. Also contains typescripts of correspondence to and from Sarah's friends, colleagues and acquaintances, often regarding work she has published. She also writes extensively about her travels in Europe, noting the people she meets and the places she visits. She sees and meets many famous men and women from cultural and aristocratic circles, such as Victor Hugo, the Princess of Wales and Christina Rossetti.
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