Chapter 19
World Traveler
Papa hunched over the table examining the newspaper spread before him. He handed me a section, “You might find this article to be of interest.”
The paper crinkled as I arranged it before me. Ida Laura Pheiffer Travels the World the headline says. What is this?
Mrs. Ida Laura Phieffer recently embarked on her world travels, setting a course across the globe by herself at the age of forty-eight.
1846 rings in progress for the gentler s*x, as previous to Mrs. Phieffer’s bold undertaking, it was expected a gentlewoman would embark on an adventure with her husband or another respectable male chaperone with her.
The remainder of the article was devoured. I learned the intrepid traveler was born in Vienna in 1797 and had an unusual childhood. Her father educated he
