Englishwoman in the Philippines
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75
1906
English
- Introduction
- Letter 1: Manila
- Letter 2: From Manila to Iloilo
- Letter 3: First Impressions of Iloilo
- Letter 4: A Philippine House, etc.
- Letter 5: Housekeeping in Iloilo
- Letter 6: A Wasted Land
- Letter 7: Customs and Dress of the Natives
- Letter 8: Social Amusements
- Letter 9: Tariffs, Insects
- Letter 10: A Filipino Theatre - Carabaos
- Letter 11: Some Results of the American Occupation
- Letter 12: Chinese New Year, etc.
- Letter 13: Some Influences of Climate, etc.
- Letter 14: Voyage to Manila
- Letter 15: An Official Entertainment
- Letter 16: Manila and Its Inhabitants
- Letter 17: Democracy and Society in Manila
- Letter 18: The Return Voyage, etc.
- Letter 19: A Baile, etc.
- Letter 20: Filipino Indolence, etc.
- Letter 21: The Wharves, etc.
- Letter 22: A Trip to Guimaras, etc.
- Letter 23: A Tropical Shower, etc.
- Letter 24: Easter Festivities
- Letter 25: A Day at Nagaba
- Letter 26: The Monsoon, etc.
- Letter 27: A Week-end at Nagaba
- Letter 28: A Little Earthquake, etc.
- Letter 29: An Evening on the River, etc.
- Letter 30: Philippine Sanitation, etc.
- Letter 31: Mr. Taft, etc.
- Letter 32: Our Mongeese, etc.
- Letter 33: A Paper-Chase, etc.
- Letter 34: Trying Heat, etc.
- Letter 35: Declaration Day, etc.
- Letter 36: Cock-Fighting
- Letter 37: A Pearl of Great Price
- Letter 38: Agricultural Possibilities
- Letter 39: A Last Day at Nagaba, etc.
- Letter 40: Preparations
- Letter 41: The Festivities
- Letter 42: Weighing Anchor
- Letter 43: Homeward Bound
Enid Gambier Dauncey was a travel writer who, with her businessman husband, lived in a provincial city in the Philippines for nine months from 1904 to 1905. Her account of that stay, in the form of letters to friends, is something more than a travelogue, as she made many astute observations that would normally be missed by someone simply passing through. Her stay there occurred just a few years after the Americans replaced the Spanish as the colonial masters, and she includes anecdotes that reveal that tense relationship, as well as the naivete of the Americans called upon to administer their new 'protectorate'. Mrs. Dauncey's entertaining description of Philippine social and material life, with her comments on the culture from her foreigner's perspective, are enlivened by her natural curiosity and dry wit. (Summary by Ted Lienhart)
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