Life in Mexico / by Frances Calderon de la Barca; introduction by Woodrow Borah

University of California Press. Softcover. New. 

Originally published in 1843, Fanny Calderon de la Barca, gives her spirited account of living in Mexico–from her travels with her husband through Mexico as the Spanish diplomat to the daily struggles with finding good help–Fanny gives the reader an enlivened picture of the life and times of a country still struggling with independence.