Englishwoman in the Philippines
Author: first_name: Enid
last_name: Dauncey
Language: English
Year: 1906

Enid Gambier Dauncey was a travel writer who, with her businessman husband, lived in a provincial city in the Philippines for nine months from 1904 to 1905. Her account of that stay, in the form of letters to friends, is something more than a travelogue, as she made many astute observations that would normally be missed by someone simply passing through.  Her stay there occurred just a few years after the Americans replaced the Spanish as the colonial masters, and she includes anecdotes that rev