author
Alice R. Humphrey
A late-19th-century travel writer whose surviving work carries readers through Brazil with an observant eye for daily life, education, religion, and social change. Her writing offers both the curiosity of a traveler and the tone of someone eager to explain a little-known place to American readers.
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A summer journey to Brazil
by Alice R. Humphrey
About the author
Very little confirmed biographical information about this author appears to be readily available in major public sources. What can be confirmed is that she wrote A Summer Journey to Brazil, published in 1900, a travel narrative about Brazil.
The book presents Brazil to English-speaking readers through firsthand impressions of cities, landscapes, customs, schools, hospitals, and religious life. That mix of travel writing and social observation gives her work a documentary feel as well as a personal one.
Because reliable public records located here focus mainly on the book rather than on her life, it is safest to treat her as a little-documented author whose reputation rests on this surviving travelogue.