author
Ethel Gwendoline Vincent
b. 1861
A Victorian travel writer with a taste for long journeys and vivid observation, she turned globe-spanning tours into lively books for curious readers. Her work offers a window into 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
Born in 1861 as Ethel Gwendoline Moffatt, she became Lady Ethel Gwendoline Vincent after marrying Sir Charles Edward Howard Vincent. Sources found during research describe her as a British travel author, and her books often drew on journeys she made with her husband.
Her best-known works include Forty Thousand Miles Over Land and Water, Newfoundland to Cochin China by the Golden Wave, New Nippon, and the Forbidden City, and China to Peru over the Andes. These travel narratives follow routes through the British Empire, North America, Asia, and South America, and they are remembered for bringing together personal impressions, scenery, and the experience of long-distance travel in the late 1800s.
A later source lists her life dates as 1861–1952. Even in the brief biographical records that survive online, she stands out as a writer who preserved the pace, scale, and curiosity of Victorian travel for modern readers.