title: The Far Islands and Other Cold Places: Travel Essays of a Victorian Lady
author:  Elizabeth Taylor 
description: But your collection seems to me quite independent of the years. They are full of personal feeling and quite radiant with color. --Ellery Sedgwick, Editor, The Atlantic Monthly
zlib_text: ## THE ENGLISHWOMAN IN AMERICA
  
  ##### BY ISABELLA LUCY BIRD
  
  ##### FOREWORD AND NOTES BY ANDREW HILL CLARK
  
  ## CONTENTS.
  
  #### CHAPTER I.
  
  Prefatory and explanatory—The voyage out—The sentimental—The actual  
  —The oblivious—The medley—Practical joking—An unwelcome companion—  
  American patriotism—The first view—The departure.  
  
  #### CHAPTER II.
  
  An inhospitable reception—Halifax and the Blue Noses—The heat— Disappointed
  expectations—The great departed—What the Blue Noses might be—What the coach
  was not—Nova Scotia and its capabilities—The roads and their annoyances—A tea
  dinner—A night journey and a Highland cabin —A nautical catastrophe—A joyful
  reunion.
  
  #### CHAPTER III.
  
  Popular ignorance—The garden island—Summer and winter contrasted—A wooden
  capital—Island politics, and their consequences—Gossip—"Blowin- time"—Religion
  and the clergy—The servant nuisance—Colonial society—An evening party—An
  island premier—Agrarian outrage—A visit to the Indians—The pipe of peace—An
  Indian coquet