Fiennes, Celia

Fiennes, Celia

▪ British travel writer
born June 7, 1662, Newton Toney, Wiltshire, Eng.
died April 10, 1741, Hackney, London

      English travel writer who journeyed on horseback all over England at the end of the 17th century, and whose journals are an invaluable source for social and economic historians.

      The daughter of a colonel and the granddaughter of a parliamentary leader in the English Civil Wars, she lived in the family manor house until 1691 and then probably went to live in London. After making many shorter journeys, she made an extended trip through northern England in 1697, traveling more than 600 miles (1,000 km) in six weeks. This trip was followed by others that eventually took her to every county in England. Her journeys extended over the period from about 1685 to 1712.

      Fiennes was an indefatigable and meticulous observer who paid special attention to urban life, industry, and the growing material prosperity of her country. She traveled partly to improve her health (she drank and bathed at every available watering place) and partly to visit her relatives, but mainly out of sheer curiosity. Her journals were written up in 1702 from notes she had made during her travels. These provide the first comprehensive eyewitness account of England written since Elizabethan times. In her rambling, unpunctuated literary style, Fiennes describes her visits to stately homes and natural and man-made “curiosities.” She observed quarries, mines, and industries, she sampled the local food and drink everywhere she went, and she described the spas she visited and the roads she traveled to reach them. An incomplete version of her journals was first published in 1888. The Illustrated Journals of Celia Fiennes, 1685–c. 1712, edited by Christopher Morris, was published in 1947 (reissued in 1982).

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