author
Ethel Gwendoline Vincent
b. 1861
A Victorian travel writer with a taste for big journeys, she turned long-distance tours into lively books for curious readers. Her work captures the scale of late-19th-century travel across the British Empire, Asia, and South America.
2 Audiobooks
Forty Thousand Miles Over Land and Water The Journal of a Tour Through the British Empire and America
by Ethel Gwendoline Vincent
Newfoundland to Cochin China By the Golden Wave, New Nippon, and the Forbidden City
by Ethel Gwendoline Vincent
About the author
Lady Ethel Gwendoline Moffatt Vincent was a British travel author born on February 14, 1861. She is best known for writing detailed travel books drawn from extensive journeys, including Forty Thousand Miles Over Land and Water and Newfoundland to Cochin China.
Her books follow routes across the British Empire and America and later through Asia and South America, blending personal observation with the travel writing style of the late Victorian period. Some editions and library records list her as Ethel Gwendoline Moffatt Vincent or Lady Vincent, reflecting her married title.
Available records indicate that she died on February 14, 1952. A suitable verified portrait image was not clearly available from the sources I checked, so no profile image is included here.