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Laura G. Case Collins

1826–1912

A 19th-century travel writer with a warm, observant voice, she turned European journeys into lively letters full of place, personality, and everyday detail. Her work offers a window into how an American traveler saw the world at the end of the Victorian era.

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By-gone Tourist Days: Letters of Travel

By-gone Tourist Days: Letters of Travel

by Laura G. Case Collins

About the author

Laura G. Case Collins was an American author born in 1826 and died in 1912. Public-domain catalog records for her work identify her as the author of By-gone Tourist Days: Letters of Travel and Immortelles and Asphodels.

Her best-known book, By-gone Tourist Days, gathers travel letters about journeys through Europe. The surviving descriptions of the book emphasize her vivid observations of cities, landscapes, architecture, and the people she met along the way, giving modern readers an engaging snapshot of late 19th-century travel writing.

Because reliable biographical information about her appears to be limited online, the broad outline of her life is clearer than many personal details. Even so, her books still preserve a distinctive voice: curious, reflective, and eager to share the pleasures and surprises of travel.