As we begin our celebrations of Women’s History Month, it is fitting that we honor the “First Daughter of the Legation,” Glorvina Mullowny Fort, who as a young woman traveled to Tangier from Philadelphia in the 1820s to join her father John Mullowny, who headed the American Consulate in Tangier. Later in her life in 1859, at the urging of her friends, Glorvina published a series of letters that she had written during the seven years she had spent in Tangier into a fascinating book which you can read online, “Coos-coo-soo, or Letters from Tangier, in Africa.”
In these times of pandemic, it may also interest you in learn that in her second letter, Glorvina describes shipboard quarantine in Gibraltar!
