A Diplomat's Wife in Mexico

From: Frontiers | Date: January 1, 2004| Author: Wood, Molly M | Copyright information

Creating Professional, Political, and National Identities in the Early Twentieth Century

Early in 1916, Edith O'Shaughnessy, the wife of a former American diplomat, added the final touches to her first book, an account of her experiences in Mexico from 1911 to 1914. By publishing this book, which was marketed as a woman's travel narrative, O'Shaughnessy engaged in one of the primary narrative modes by which women in the early twentieth century entered into public discourse.1 O'Shaughne...

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