The religious and aristocratic eloquence in Apuntes de viaje, by Isabel Pesado de Mier (1910)

Abstract

One of the few travel books published by a Mexican woman at the beginning of the 20th Century is that of Isabel Pesado de Mier. The notes of her visits to Europe and the United States of America, as well as descriptions of places, customs, and his own feelings, in the manner of a diary, contain her vision of topics such as the Catholic and Protestant religions; monarchies and republics; social classes and races. The Duchess of Mier, as she signed her Apuntes de viaje, is discreet in her political opinions, but dares to leave written, with exemplary religious eloquence, how arguments should be written in favor of people of her class and her religion, according to some preceptors in vogue for the years in which she wrote her notes, at the end of the 19th Century.