author
Beatrice Larned Massey
A witty early motor-age travel writer, this author is known for a 1920 cross-country memoir that turns the hardships of the road into lively, humorous storytelling. Her work offers a vivid glimpse of American travel at a moment when long-distance automobile trips were still an adventure.
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It might have been worse : a motor trip from coast to coast
by Beatrice Larned Massey
About the author
Very little biographical information about this author was easy to confirm from reliable online library and public-domain sources. What is clear is that she wrote It Might Have Been Worse: A Motor Trip from Coast to Coast, published in 1920.
Library and public-domain records describe the book as a travel narrative of an automobile journey across the United States. The memoir is remembered for its light, resilient tone and for the way it captures the challenges and pleasures of early road travel.
Because so few dependable biographical details were available, her writing remains the best introduction to her voice: observant, humorous, and engaged with the experience of seeing America by car in the early twentieth century.