Autograph Letter Collection: Women Travellers 1868-1936

Kingsley, Mary Henrietta, 1862-1900

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Mary Henrietta Kingsley was born on October 13, 1862, to George Henry and Mary Bailey Kingsley in Islington, England. Kingsley's father was a doctor, although he primarily devoted himself to traveling and writing. Despite a lack of any formal education except a few German lessons, Mary Kingsley clearly possessed a great thirst for knowledge, which was evidenced in her youth by her love of reading, particularly of scientific subjects. During her first thirty years, Kingsley lived the quiet life o...

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...

Stark, Freya, 1893-1993

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Freya Madeline Stark was born in Paris on 31 January 1893 to Robert and Flora Stark. The elder Starks--the father of British birth, the mother born on the continent--were cousins and artists. After several years of living at Chagford, Devon and in northern Italy, Robert and Flora Stark separated, and Flora, with Freya and a younger sister Vera, remained in Italy, first at Dronero, and then at Asolo, near Venice. Freya's fascination with exotic lands is said to have dated from her earliest readi...

Durham, M. E. (Mary Edith), 1863-1944

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Mary Edith Durham was born in 1863 in London, daughter of a surgeon. Educated at Bedford College and at the Royal Academy of Arts, she worked as an artist and illustrator. However, in the late 1890s, she became ill and depressed and was prescribed travel. Sailing to Montenegro, she was captivated by Balkan life and culture. Thereafter she travelled extensively in the region and began systematically to study its history and languages, with a view to understanding the customs and manners of each a...

Macleod Olive Susan Miranda 1886-1936

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Hall, Mary, 1857-1912

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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...

McGrath Joan Rosita Forbes 1893-1967

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