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The Company She Kept: Who Was Mary Douglas Newcomb?
Building a profile for someone in history is like recreating a crime scene. Detectives look for motive and opportunity: where were they, what was their motivation for being there, and who were they with? In the case of Miss Mary Douglas Newcomb (1870 Beloit, Wisconsin – 1957 Bar Harbor, Maine), a woman who traveled regularly…
Las “intenciones” de Georgiana Goddard King al inicio de su “Camino de Santiago”, o Traducir es amar…
Quizá el título de esta contribución parezca un poco críptico, tanto por parte de la autora como de la traductora. Las intenciones de King parecen claras al principio del capítulo, pero se transforman al final. Para mí, después de un tiempo de convivencia con King, no sólo con WOSJ sino también con sus manuscritos y…
The Company She Kept: Georgiana Goddard King’s Men Friends
Georgiana Goddard King loved to chat. She begins Volume III of The Way of Saint James by retelling a conversation she had with an unidentified Spanish noble who hops on the train she is taking to Santiago de Compostela. Remarkably, she converses with him in French, not Spanish or English, and she seems genuinely surprised…
Georgiana Goddard King, pionera del Camino de Santiago 