ABSTRACT
30Barbara Leigh Smith married Eugène Bodichon, M.D., in July of 1857 and a few weeks later set out on a wedding trip (cum painting, fact-finding, view-hunting and ideal-sharing) through North America.
I am one of the cracked people of the world [she had told her aunt], and I like to herd with the cracked . . . queer Americans, democrats, socialists, artists, poor devils or angels; and am never happy in an English genteel family life. I try to do it like other people, but I long always to be off on some wild adventure, or long to lecture on a tub in St. Giles, or go to see the Mormons, or ride off into the interior on horseback alone and leave the world for a month. I want to see what sort of world this God’s world is.
