On travel literature and travellers. Olivia M. Stone: An approach to an unknown biography

Abstract

Tenerife and its Six Satellites by Olivia M. Stone is one of the main works of reference in the field of historical travel literature of the Canary Islands. The book rightly occupies a privileged place in the foreign bibliography of the Canary Islands, since it is one of the first in which can be found not only the description of a visit to each of the seven islands, but also a wide variety of observations made by this tireless traveller, whose notes range from ethnography, gastronomy and climate, to history, demographics and amusing anecdotes. The aim of this article is to bring some unknown details of biographical information about Olivia Mary Hartrick Stone to the researchers and readers in order to know more and to understand better the author of such a relevant work.