By Anna Ticknor
This quantity comprises the shuttle logs of Anna and George Ticknor from trips to the German Confederation from 1815 to 1817 and from 1835 to 1836. As contributors of an specific social category, the Ticknors loved the privilege of touring and dwelling for a longer interval within the German-speaking global, which conferred much-sought-after cultural and social contrast on them in Boston. A important basic resource for American and German historians alike, those journals provide perception into the development of yank identities, in addition to outdoor views on German society, tradition, and politics within the Age of Goethe. concurrently and independently composed by way of this husband and spouse, those journals are the single recognized case of parallel female and male commute writing, hence affording a different chance to discover gender as an element in shaping their perceptions. A biographical thesaurus and huge explanatory footnotes make this article available to a large viewers.
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See Anna Ticknor’s entry from May 11, 1836, in this volume. 64. Graver, “Joanna Baillie and George Ticknor,” 31. 65. See Anna Ticknor’s entry in volume 3 of her travel journals dated January 24, 1836. 66. See Anna Ticknor’s entry from March 25, 1836, in this volume. 67. Qtd. , A Guide to the Microfilm Edition of the European Journals of George and Anna Ticknor, 3–4. ”68 The microfilm edition is, of course, complete, but it is not easily accessible. Our assortment is much larger than the journal excerpts in the 1876 volume, including about one-third of George Ticknor’s travel journals from 1815 to 1817 and nearly half of the travel journals from his 1835–1836 voyage.
IN T RODUCT ION 19 added to both George and Anna’s journals to help orient the reader. Entries have been condensed so that each date or each major topic has its own heading. Often more than one headline had to be combined or words had to be deleted from them to match the selected journal text. The format of the paragraphs has also been standardized, whereas George Ticknor sometimes indented the first line and sometimes made hanging indents. Book titles have been italicized throughout. As it was sometimes difficult to recognize that a word or phrase represented a book without italics, we felt that adding them would clarify the prose.
It is in the Japanese Palace,34 as it is still called, though it now contains only [a] collection of antiques and the Cabinet of coins in the lower story and the Library in the two upper stories. It is a good building in the form of a parallelogram, surrounding a court of the same form and well fitted up for the uses to which it is destined. It was built by Field Marshal Fleming in 1715 for his own use, but the expense had been too great for him, and in 1717 he was obliged to sell it to Augustus the II,35 who destined it for a kind of country-residence.