Introduction

This chapter explores the possibility that Sarah Austin's unfaithfulness to Pckler-Muskaus text, cleaning it up to conform to the moral and domestic ideology of 1830s England, is not the only way to engage with her work. It explores her early journey and the way in which she shaped her periodical contributions discursively to the business of cultural exchange. The chapter argues that while her references in her travelogue to home are often to England, it is not to this home that Jameson journeys constantly in her mind during the long Canadian winter, of which the first third of Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada is comprised. Home is somewhere altogether elsewhere and unexpected, not Canada, not England, but Germany. John Leonard writes of the exasperations and romance of Elsewhere and captures Jameson's situation nicely with these precise terms.