Her ashes are in Janesville's Oak Hill Cemetery.
But 150 years ago, Julia Newell was a young woman writing travel stories for the Janesville Gazette, accompanying Mark Twain to Paris, Italy, Greece, Holy Land and Egypt. The 70 tourists traveled on the side-wheel ocean steamship Quaker City.
My video focuses on Twain, but the relationship between Miss Newell and Twain on this trip is fascinating and is explored in a Wisconsin Academy Review article by Jeffery S. Churchwell, entitled, “The Letters of Julia Newell: Traveling Abroad with Mark Twain.”
Churchwell says Newell was funny like Twain and strong and independent. She was the only woman in the group who climbed the Great Pyramid of Cheops.
No comments:
Post a Comment