Table of contents : Cover Series Page Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Introduction: Tracing the Lives of Transatlantic Women Travelers \ Misty Krueger Part One: (Pseudo)Historical Women’s Travels 1. “Little Atlas”: Global Travel and Local Preservation in Maria Sibylla Merian’s The Metamorphosis of the Insects of Surinam \ Diana Epelbaum 2. Thresholds of Livability: Climate and Population Relocation in Anna Maria Falconbridge’s Two Voyages to Sierra Leone \ Shelby Johnson 3. Transatlantic Female Solidarity: Two Women Social Explorers and Their Views on Nineteenth-Century Latin American Women \ Grace A. Gomashie 4. “The Fair Daughters of Terra Nova”: Women in the Settler Cultures of Early Nineteenth-Century Newfoundland \ Pam Perkins 5. Busty Buccaneers and Sapphic Swashbucklers on the High Seas \ Ula Lukszo Klein Part Two: Fictional Women’s Travels 6. Gender Performance and the Spectacle of Female Suffering in Samuel Jackson Pratt’s Emma Corbett \ Jennifer Golightly 7. “That Person Shall Be a Woman”: Matriarchal Authority and the Fantasy of Female Power in The Female American \ Alexis McQuigge 8. “I Am Disappointed in England”: Reverse-Robinsonades and the Transatlantic Woman as Social Critic in The Woman of Colour \ Octavia Cox 9. Creole Nationalism, Mobility, and Gendered Politics in Zelica, the Creole \ Victoria Barnett-Woods 10. Feminine Negotiations within the Colony: Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko and Phebe Gibbes’s Hartly House \ Kathleen Morrissey Afterword \ Eve Tavor Bannet Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index