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Isabella Bird (1831-1904)
Korea & her neighbours : a narrative of travel, with an account of the recent vicissitudes and present position of the country ; v. 2 / by Mrs. Bishop (Isabella L. Bird) ; with a preface by Sir Walter C. Hillier, K.C.M.G. 1898
RCIN 1124046
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Isabella Bird was a sickly child, but always wanted to travel. Supported by a grant of £100 from her father, her first journey was to America, about which she wrote her first (anonymous) book The Englishwoman in America, published in 1856. Her books were generally based on letters written home to her sister Henrietta, who lived in Scotland, on the Isle of Mull. After Henrietta’s death in 1880 she married John Bishop, a doctor from Edinburgh who had been courting her assiduously for years, and after his death resumed her world-wide travels, this time intending to do missionary work rather than simply travelling for pleasure. She was the first woman elected to the Royal Geographical Society in 1892, and between January 1894 and March 1897 journeyed round Korea, being in many instances the first European to have reported on the area.
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