Books by Mary Ann Parker

This fully-annotated edition of Anna Maria Falconbridge's "Two Voyages to Sierra Leone" (1794) and Mary Ann Parker's "A Voyage Round the World" (1795) brings together the first published accounts by women of these new sites of British colonization.

A Voyage Round the World, in the Gorgon Man of War (1795) records Mary Ann Parker's voyage with her husband, Captain John Parker, to New South Wales. Written following the death of her husband, the memoir offers valuable insight into women's participation in eighteenth-century colonialism, both socially and economically.

An updated edition of the author's 1998 bibliography, taking into account the phenomenal increase in Handel scholarship at the end of the twentieth century. This research aid includes annotated entries grouped in topical chapters as well as useful appendices and indices.