Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1893 — A Woman Traveler. [ARTICLE]

A Woman Traveler.

St. Louis Globe Democrat. A Spanish writer, the Baroness Wilson, is now in this city on her return from her second tour through South America, Mexico, Central America, and the United States. The baroness is a great traveler as well as a renowned writer, and spent fifteen years in those countries studying the people and their history. As the result of her literary labor she has published a series of valuable travels and historical works. The governments of all the countries .the baroness visited vied with each other in showering attentions on her, and she was received as their guest. Every means in their power was placed within her reach to enable her to pursue her historical researches. The government of Venezuela raised an appropriation of SIS,(XX) from Congress for her contingent expenses. l The writer is an honorary membei’yf the principal literary societies in Spain us well as in South America. She was also appointed a member of the International Congress of'Americanists held in Madrid in 1892. The baroness is a native of Granada. She was educated in Pah is, and on leaving the convent married an Englishman, Baron Wilson, who died a few years after their marriage