I've found my copy of the book Pigsties and Paradise mentioned below. It has
the following chapters:
1. Women travellers, Wales and the picturesque
2. The inquisitive travellers: Frances Anne Crewe 1795 and Sarah Anne Wilmot
1795 and 1802
3. The Lady's companion : Millicent Bant 1806, 1808 and 1812
4. The frequent traveller : Mary Anne Hibbert 1816, 1823, 1849, 1856, 1858
5. The picturesque traveller : Margaret Martineau 1824
6. The honeymoon diarist : Elizabeth Bower 1837
7. Our fortnight in Wales : frederice Rouse Boughton 1860
Afterword
At the end there is a list of sources, a gazeteer of place names and inns
(but unfortunately no page references) and there is no index.
Each chapter follows the journey of the particular traveller so no, it isn't
written region by region. It has a narrative of their journey with
quotations from the diaries.
Listed in the gazetteer (of those places you ask about) are:
Bala
Also in Merioneth Barmouth, Dolgellau, Cynfal Falls, Harlech, Llanegryn,
Llwyngwril, Tanybwlch
I can't see listed the places you note in Montgomeryshire but the following
are listed
Llanrhaeadr (just over the border), Llanidloes, Machynlleth, Montgomery,
Welshpool.
Confusingly, modern counties are used so they are under Powys - more
references to Radnorshire and some Brecon.
There is a map at the beginning of each chapter so that you have an idea
where each traveller visited so chapter 2 shows a journey from Barmouth to
Wrexham (or vice versa), chapter 3 seems to criss cross all over including
Cricieth to Llangollen, Tanybwlch to Aberystwyth and then to Llandrindod
with a detour to Llanidloes, chapter 5 Tanybwlch to Devil's Bridge, chapter
6 Caernarfon to Chepstow via Machynlleth (I haven't listed the journeys
elswhere in Wales) but I haven't time to read in detail each chapter sorry.
I hope this helps you Peter.
Rhian
-----Original Message-----
From: John Ball
Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013 8:08 AM
To: powys(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: Re: [POWYS] Lady Diarist and the Tour of Wales
Peter Evans wrote:
I read in Cronicl Powys number 89 (August 2013) about the talk by Liz Pitman
on her book Pigsties and Paradise Lady Diarist and the Tour of Wales 1795 -
1860.
Does anyone have some more details on this book?
Is there any mention of Merionethshire? The area around Bala?
Is there any mention of Montgomeryshire? The area around Hirnant, Pennant,
Llangynog?
Is the book written in a format of region by region?
============
Dear Peter,
Googling the title of the book revealed several on-line references,
including the following link to a WalesOnline website containing a page of
Author's Notes:
http://tinyurl.com/mt7r4c3
"They came, they saw, and they wrote... about landscapes, naked bathing,
drunk coach drivers and terrible weather. They were mostly well-to-do ladies
touring Wales between 1795 and 1860 and Liz Pitman read their diaries for
her book Pigsties and Paradise...." and so on....
It may not answer all your questions but it will give you a flavour of the
book.
Kind regards,
John
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