Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century.

Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy), 1831-1904

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Isabella Lucy Bird was born on 15 October 1831 in Boroughbridge Hall, Yorkshire, England. The Bird family had established the silk trade at Coventry in the late 1600s, and were themselves silk masters. Isabella's first publication at the age of 16 was a pamphlet addressing free trade versus protectionism, after which she continued writing articles for various periodicals. In 1854, Bird's life of travelling began, She traveled to the United States, Australia, and Hawaii. In 1873 she covered over...

Stanhope, Hester, Lady, 1776-1839

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Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope (12 March 1776 – 23 June 1839) was the eldest child of Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope. In August 1803, she moved into the home of her uncle, Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger, to manage his household and act as his hostess and later secretary. In February 1810, Stanhope left England and travelled to through Greece, Turkey, and the Middle East. Stanhope came into possession of a medieval Italian manuscript copied from the records of a monastery somewhere in S...

de Bourboulon, Catherine, 1827-1865

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Trollope, Frances Milton, 1780-1863

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Epithet: novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000353.0x0002cc Epithet: Mrs; novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000353.0x0002cb Epithet: née Milton wife of Thomas Anthony Trollope, novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001035.0x000391 ...

Brassey, Anna, wife of Thomas 1st Earl Brassey

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Epithet: wife of Thomas 1st Earl Brassey British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001219.0x00023f ...

Gordon Cumming, C.F. (Constance Frederica), 1837-1924

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British author of travel literature. Beginning in 1875, she was governess for the family of the British governor of Fiji, Sir Arthur Hamilton Gordon. From the description of Letters : to Elizabeth, Duchess of Argyll, 1876-1878. (University of California, San Diego). WorldCat record id: 32071202 Biography British author of travel literature. Beginning in 1875, she was governess for the family of the British governor of Fij...

Morgan, Lady, (Sydney), 1783-1859

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Sydney Morgan, née Owneson, Lady Morgan, Irish-born novelist and socialite. From the guide to the Sydney Morgan, Lady Morgan manuscript material : 22 items, 1809-1858, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) Sydney Owenson Morgan, Irish novelist, published her first volume of verse in March 1801 and her most famous novel, The wild Irish girl, in 1806. She married surgeon Sir Thomas Charles Morgan on 20 January 1812. They moved...

Tinné, Alexandrine, 1835-1869

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Hill, Florence Davenport

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Epithet: writer on childcare British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000688.0x000309 ...

Hommaire de Hell, Adèle, 1815-1883

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Mazuchelli, Nina E., 1832-1914

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Pfeiffer, Ida, 1797-1858

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Ida Laura Pfeiffer, an Austrian explorer, travel writer, and ethnographer, became a famous early female traveler; her bestselling journals were translated into seven languages. She journeyed an estimated 32,000 kilometres by land and 240,000 kilometres by sea through Southeast Asia, the Americas, the Middle East, and Africa, and made two trips around the world between 1846 and 1855. Though a member of the geographical societies of both Berlin and Paris, she was denied membership by the Royal Geo...

Belgiojoso, Maria Cristina Beatrice Trivulzio-, Princess, Italian patriot

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Hill, Rosamond Davenport, 1825-1902

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Epithet: Miss educational administrator British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000613.0x0000b9 ...