ABSTRACT
The autobiographical narrator tells the readers of the Christian women’s journal that she had only given the “smart fellow” a shilling and had explained to him that she simply had a whole week ahead of her and no money to spend on such generous tips. Thus, although she must have seemed vulnerable as a young female traveller becoming seasick during her first voyage, as the narrator she shows her readers that she has not at all lost her wits. The remainder of the travel account, published a year after the 1927 journey, continues to confirm the ambivalent character of the young woman traveller, and seems to have served different kinds of readers and attended to different kinds of gender expectations. The aforementioned emblematic level-headed Dutch female and Christian-cheerful traveller time and again shows up in Mary Pos’ published and unpublished work, which straightforwardly confirms the joys of solo travelling.
