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Abstract

Emilia Serrano, or Baroness of Wilson, a 19th-century writer, journalist, and traveler, spent half of her life in Latin America, due to her love and fondness for the place. This article will try to shed light on this author and highlight the place that she occupies in the travel literature of her time. Serrano faced such gender stereotype as the presumed weakness and sensitivity of women. Animated by her an unquenchable thirst for knowledge and exploration, Serrano traveled across America, from Canada to Patagonia in search of adventure. She wrote several literary works bearing testimony to her experiences, perceptions, multilingual fluency and wide culture. she built lasting connections with several poets, such as Alfonso de Lamartine, Alejandro Dumas and Francisco de la Rosa. They would subsequently participate in such magazines that Emilia would establish or those she would manage as the New World Magazine (Revista del Nuevo Mundo). Serrano’s literary versatility found expression during her travels to the American continent in a plethora of publications. These include El camino de la Cruz and The Angel of Peace (El angel de la paz), to mention only a few. This intervention will focus on a book by Emilia Serrano that reflects the author’s love and identification with the American world, América y sus mujeres. This 400-page book is devoted to Serrano’s trip Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Mexico, Venezuela, Chile and other countries of the American continent, shedding light on their customs, their industry, their architecture, their monuments, their landscapes and history, as well as the most prominent women in those countries.

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