Fiona Savage - A Passage to Africa: Voyaging in the Travel Writing of Sarah Bowdich

Women and the Sea

A Passage to Africa: Voyaging in the Travel Writing

of Sarah Bowdich

Dr Fiona Savagefiona.savage@uea.ac.uk

A trading vessel off Liverpool, 1809By Robert Salmon

Collection of The National Maritime Museum, London (BHC1862)

The Court of King Neptune, Crossing of the Line Ceremony By A. Correard, 1816

Source: Relation complete du naufrage de la frigate La Meduse faisant partie del’expedition du Senegal en 1816 s

The Tropic of Cancer, 23° 26’N

Goree By Sarah Bowdich, 1816

Watercolour on PaperPrivate Collection

Off the West African Coastline By Sarah Bowdich, 1816

Watercolour on PaperPrivate Collection

Liverpool Slave Ship c.1780By William Jackson

Collection of The National Maritime Museum, London (ZBA2429)

The Governor’s Private Apartments at Cape Coast Castle By Sarah Bowdich, 1816

Watercolour on PaperPrivate Collection